# Does search still work normally on fields with norms set to false? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 30, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-search-still-work-normally-on-fields-with-norms-set-to-false/154636 "2018-10-30T11:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ong/32/40766_2.png) [@Ong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ong)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-search-still-work-normally-on-fields-with-norms-set-to-false/154636/1 "2018-10-30T11:30:32Z")
I am looking at saving disk space for an ES index and read that setting a text field with "norms": false helps. If a text field were to have norm = false, other than scoring, do other aspects of search still work e.g. phrase search, \*, fuzzy, Boolean operators ? ---
**Author:** ![polyfractal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/polyfractal/32/48162_2.png) [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-search-still-work-normally-on-fields-with-norms-set-to-false/154636/2 "2018-11-02T14:39:16Z")
Yep, full-text search and all the various query components should continue to work as normal. It'll just affect the scoring of those fields since they lack some of the normalization components. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-search-still-work-normally-on-fields-with-norms-set-to-false/154636/3 "2018-11-30T14:39:18Z")
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