Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Searching for Chinese or Japanese and English words in a Chinese or Japanese environment
For Chinese
- English stemming and branching are not supported.
- A mixture of Chinese and English characters is not supported when the characters are separated by a blank space.
- A mixture of Chinese and English characters is supported when the characters are not separated by a blank space.
- Multiple Chinese keyword search is not supported.
For Japanese
- English stemming and branching are not supported.
- A mixture of Japanese and English characters is not supported when the characters are separated by a blank space.
- A mixture of Japanese and English characters is supported when the characters are not separated by a blank space.
- Multiple Japanese keyword search is not supported.
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IR keys and non-IR keys
Multiple files containing IR keys
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