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Use the Help System Efficiently | 5
Use Searches
A basic search using the Search tab consists of the word or phrase you want
to find. The basic search rules are as follows:
■ Type your search in uppercase or lowercase characters; searches are not
case-sensitive.
■ Search for any combination of letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9).
■ Do not use punctuation marks such as the period, colon, semicolon,
comma, hyphen, and single quotation marks; they are ignored during a
search.
■ Group the elements of your search using double quotation marks or
parentheses to set each element apart.
Note When you use the Search tab, all topics that contain the word or phrase
that you specify are listed. This includes the text in topic titles and labels, not just
the topic text.
Use Advanced Search
Advanced full-text search on the Search tab allows you to search using Bool-
ean operators and wild cards. You can limit the search to previous results,
match similar words, or search topic titles only. When searching for multi-
word topics, use double quotation marks (" ") to enclose words that must
appear next to each other in the specified sequence. For example, enter
"specifying units of measurement" to find only topics with all those words in
that order. If you don’t use the quotation marks around that text, Help finds
all topics containing any one of the listed words, that is, all topics containing
"specifying", all topics containing "units", all topics containing "of", and all
topics containing "measurement".
With the AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR operators, you can precisely define your
search by creating a relationship between search terms. The following table
shows how you can use each of these operators. If no operator is specified,
AND is used. For example, the query "spacing border printing" is equivalent
to "spacing AND border AND printing".
Search for Example Results
Both terms in the
same topic
"tree view" AND
"palette"
Topics containing both the words "tree
view" and "palette"
Either term in a topic "raster" OR "vector" Topics containing either the word
"raster" or the word "vector" or both