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■ .dwg — Autodesk AutoCAD Drawings

■ .dxf — Autodesk AutoCAD Drawing exchange files

■ .html, .htm — Hypertext Markup Language files

■ .pdf — Adobe Portable Document Format files

■ .ppt — Microsoft PowerPoint presentations

■ .rtf — Microsoft Rich Text Format files

■ .txt — Microsoft DOS ASCII text files

■ .xls — Microsoft Excel Workbooks

In the following situations a file will not be indexed:

■ Files that are internally password protected

■ Corrupted files

■ Compound documents (for example, an Excel table embedded in a word

doc)

■ Linked (or Xref-ed) content within a document

NOTE Files that can not be read, for whatever reason, are not scanned and

indexed.

Using Wildcard Expressions and Boolean Operator for Full Content

The full content search is quite specific on its own. By default the system

searches for a phrase rather than a single word. Thus, you do not need to add

double quotation marks to your phrase as you might have to in other searches.

However boolean operators and wildcard expressions are available to help

narrow your full content searches for more precise results. When you use the

Files named field, you can search for words or phrases using wildcard

expressions. Wildcard expressions allow you to search for one or more

characters using a question mark or asterisk. Only the Files named field uses

wildcard expressions; it does not recognize the boolean operators AND, OR,

and AND NOT.

The following table shows an example of a wildcard expression search:

Search ResultsExample

Topics that contain the terms "water", "wa-

terfall", "waterproof" etc.

Use an asterisk (*) to match any number of

characters: water*

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