# Full text search for when text/document is split chunks
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-search-for-when-text-document-is-split-chunks/208487
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 19, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-search-for-when-text-document-is-split-chunks/208487 "2019-11-19T10:36:09Z")
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### Author:  [@smerchant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smerchant)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-search-for-when-text-document-is-split-chunks/208487/1 "2019-11-19T10:36:09Z")
We have large number of books and we would like to store each book (size of the single book itself could be very large) into small chucks/sections (let's say between 300 to 500 words).
I am not sure how search would work if I search for a phrase, **'The boy is standing in a blue shirt'**. especially when it is split into multiple record/documents
1. document 1: ...The boy is standing document
2. document 2: in a blue shirt. ...
We really would like the exact phrase match to work even if it is split.
What would be best way to achieve this?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-search-for-when-text-document-is-split-chunks/208487/2 "2019-11-21T04:14:37Z")
Welcome!
You can't really do that as the text will go to x documents instead of a single one.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-search-for-when-text-document-is-split-chunks/208487/3 "2019-12-19T04:14:40Z")
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