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It appears that the search retains the status "Added" regardless of whether we remove the contact form that particular group, in other words, once added , status is always "added."  The search results shows Contacts IN Group B AND Group Status - "Added"  after it's been removed and hence is showing in results. Anyone know : is this is something we need to code in - around?

Joanne, thanks, we added code to deal with the issue as per Lobo's comment at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,23746.0.html
Tthis was to create a truer AND-OR functionality to the groups and tags as it seemed to be treating it as default OR search per http://book.civicrm.org/user/version/4.1/the-user-interface/searching

Still, if you remove a contact from a group, is there a way to not have "Past Groups" show up. this seems to be what's confusing the search. We just want the member out that group entirely, not showing up in any further results after we removed them.

Hope that clears it up. H

I could have the wrong impression entirely, but I think perhaps you misunderstand the function of the Search Operator field. 

In Advanced Search, the Search operator selection applies to how the different fields are combined, not to how the selections within a field are combined.

Selections within a given field are always combined with an OR .

For example

ID	Name	Job title
1	Mary	barista
2	Jane	barista
3	Peter	waiter
4	Simon	cook
5	Fiona	waiter
6	Harry	barista
7	Ruth	barista

With Group A = {1,2,3,4} and Group B = {2,4,5,6}

If you do an advanced search and the only thing you set is selecting both group A and group B in the group(s) field,  then the result will be {1,2,3,4,5,6}. This will be the result whether the Search operator is set to AND or to OR.



The search operator field only has an effect if you set criteria for more than one field in an advanced search.

So if you select Group A in the groups field and barista in the job title field and the Search operator is set to AND then the result will be  {1,2} as these are the only two who are both in group A and have a job title of barista.

If you select Group A in the groups field and barista in the job title field and the Search operator is set to OR then the result will be {1,2,3,4,6,7} as these are the people who are in group A or have a job title of barista (or both).

So coming back to your situation if the person you removed from group B is still in group A then they will always be included in your results.

(Apologies if you already understood this. If so, perhaps you can give a brief example, using just first names, of the problems you are having.)