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
| Search for | Example | Results |
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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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Stored query option definitions
| Option key | Function | Definition |
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| F1 | Append using the & character | Appends an additional query to the end of your original query using the word AND to separate the two queries. |
| F2 | Append using the | character | Appends an additional query to the end of your original query using the word OR to separate the two queries. |
| F3 | Insert using the & character | Inserts an additional query at the beginning of your original query using the word AND to separate the two queries. |
| F4 | Insert using the | character | Inserts an additional query at the beginning of your original query using the word OR to separate the two queries. |
Related topics
Record retrieval
Stored queries
Add a stored query
Create stored queries from the Query Maintenance form
Update a stored query
Append stored queries
