Searching for Topics

If you can’t find what you need using the Contents or Index tabs, you can search for words using the Search bar.

The search feature of this online guide returns results ranked by relevance. The ranking considers frequency (the number of times the words appear in a topic), proximity (how close the words are, when you use more than one word), and importance (if the words appear in topic headings, for example).

Common words (such as “and”, “for”, “that”, and so on) are ignored when you search.

When you enter more than one word, all the words you enter must appear in a topic to be considered a match. If you don’t get any results, try removing some words.

If you would like a more specific search results, use a search operator. Search operators are symbols that give you more control over the results. Search operators can be combined to produce the best search results.

Search for an exact match

"indexing report"

The user puts a term in quotes to search for the exact term. The help system ranks exact matches higher, and highlights the term. Items that include slight variations will be ranked lower, with no highlighted text.

Search for either word

index OR report

If you have several words that could possibly be included in a text, but do not need all of them to be on the same page, include OR between the words. The words are highlighted in different colors.

To search for help topics

The software returns a relevance-ranked list of topics matching the words you entered.

 

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