No, not without changing the search to limiting the result set. You do not have much control over the built-in UI elements in saved search.

thanks Sandii. One more question: is there a way to create a saved search filter that searches multiple fields?

Why would you want one filter to search multiple fields? Just create a conditional

AND

or

OR

around there and group the 2 criteria togther

i want to find a customer record whose phone number is 123-456-7890. There is a standard phone number field but we also created a custom field called alternate phone number i want to load a saved search, and i want to be able to paste that value to the phone number filter, and it should search for both : main phone number or alternate phone number

Yeah create a condition with an OR filter between them, phone number is XXX OR alternat phone number is XXX

I would need expression for that. and I dont think i am allowed to do that.

What do you mean by allowed to do that? Like you need permissions?

no im getting an error - take a look at the screenshot above

Ohhh you mean like actual filter on the filters tab, no you cannot do this with a filter on the page. I thought you using the world filter to mean criteria.

no i meant actual filter - thanks for your help tho