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To start Search – Type the words you would expect to find in the posts that contain your answer. Do not use 'noise' words such as how, why, the, in, on. Use words that best describe the content you seek. Select any additional options you want and then click GO to begin your search.
Specify how the search program should search for the words in the Search box. Select any of the following options:
- Match any words (default) – Shows pages that contain any of the words typed, in any order. For example, if you type sound volume in the Search box and select this option, the search results will be pages that contain either sound or volume.
- Match wildcard - Show pages that contains all words that begin with part of a keyword and end with multiple endings. For example, if you type the word - free, the search results will be pages that contain words that start with free, such as freedom, freeway, etc.
- Match Boolean (use AND/OR) – Customize your search to include and exclude words or groups of words by using the following Boolean expressions:
- AND – Shows posts that contain both of the words specified.
- OR – Shows posts that contain either of the words specified.
- AND NOT – Shows posts that do not contain the words specified.
Note that if you do not use text containing AND, OR, or AND NOT the search results will show posts that contain the exact phrase entered.
- Match all words – Shows pages that contain all of the words in the Search box. For example, if you type sound volume in the Search for box and select this option, the search results will be pages that contain both sound and volume.
- Match Free text search – With this option, you can enter any set of words or phrases, or even a complete sentence. The Search Engine examines this text, identifies all the significant words and noun phrases, and internally constructs a query with those terms.
- Match exact text – Shows pages that contain all of the words, in the exact order typed.
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