Single Word Search
- Entering a single word, not in quotations, searches for all variations on that word. For example: the search term meet returns pages with the words 'meet', 'meets', 'meeting'
Multiple Word Search
- Entering a list of words will search for documents which contain ALL of the words entered, regardless of their order or proximity in the document. For example: the search term used cars will return all documents that contain both the word 'used' and the word 'cars'. (Note: this is equivalent to searching for used AND cars)
- Enclosing a word or phrase in quotes searches for that literal word or phrase. For example: the search term "meet" will only return pages with the word 'meet' in them, not 'meeting' or 'meets'.
- The term "used cars" will return pages which contain the full phrase 'used cars', not pages which contain 'she used to buy cars'.
- AND, OR and NOT can be used to include and exclude words from searches.
- The search term used AND cars returns only documents which include BOTH of the words 'used' and 'cars'.
- The term used OR cars returns all documents which include either of the words 'used' or 'cars'.
- The term used NOT cars returns documents which include the word 'used' but NOT the word 'cars'. (Note: the minus sign (-) is a shorthand for NOT)
- The asterisk (*) replaces an indefinite number of characters in the search textension 8
- The question mark (?) replaces only one character in the search textension 8
- Both types of wildcards can be used at any position in a word. For example: law* returns pages with the words 'law', 'lawyer', 'lawful', etc.. gr?y returns 'grey' or 'gray'.
- Mixed case words are treated as proper nouns. For example: searching for Attorney will only return pages which contain the capitalized word 'Attorney'.
- Words all in one case will return any variety of capitalization. For example: Searching for attorney or ATTORNEY will return 'attorney', 'Attorney', 'ATTornEY', etc.
