Tips to Improve Search Results

Try enclosing search terms in quotation marks. This is useful for restricting a search term to locate terms that appear in an exact order.

Example

Search for: "license" (including the quotation marks)

Search only finds matches that contain License and license.

Try typing part of a word or any string (including numbers) as your search term.

Example

Partial search for: cond

Search finds matches that contain conditioning and second.

This feature is not limited to words only. It works with any string (including numbers) that starts and ends with a space. For example, let's say that the IP address numbered 192.168.10.1 is included in one of your topics. To find the topic that includes the match, simply type 10.1 in the search field.

Show results based on the following boolean operators. You can use operators in combination with search terms to increase or decrease the number of search results.

Use to narrow the search and retrieve only the topics that contain all of the words it separates.

Type AND/and between two or more terms.

Note: This is not case sensitive.

Example

Because the operator is not case sensitive, you can type cat AND dog AND parrot, cat And dog And parrot, or cat and dog and parrot.

Below are the results of a search for cat and dog and parrot.

When separating terms with a blank space, the AND is always inferred.

Example

Because AND is inferred, here are the results of a search for cats dogs.

Instead of the word AND, type the plus symbol (+).

Example

Below are the results of a search for cat + dog + parrot:

Instead of the word AND, type the ampersand symbol (&).

Example

Below are the results of a search for cat & dog & parrot:

Use to search for two or more words. This broadens the search results by retrieving topics that contain any of the words it separates.

Type OR/or between two or more terms.

Note: This operator is not case sensitive.

Example

Because the operator is not case sensitive, you can search for cat OR dog OR parrot, cat Or dog Or parrot, cat or dog or parrot, or cat dog parrot.

Below are the results of a search for cat or dog or parrot:

Type the pipe symbol (|) instead of typing OR.

Example

You can search for dog | cat | parrot.

Use to find topics that contain one term but not the other.

Type a term, followed by the carat symbol (^), and then type another term.

Note: The carat symbol (^) can be used interchangeably with an exclamation point (!) and NOT.

Example

To search for topics containing the word dog and not cat, search for dog ^ cat:

Use parentheses to combine boolean phrases and search terms.

Type parentheses ( ) around the combined terms.

Example

To search for topics containing cat and either the term dog or puppy, search for cat and (dog or puppy):