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Tips for Searching

• Look for words with the same prefix use the asterisk (star) wildcard. For example, in your query form type region* to find region, regions, regional and so on.

• Search for all forms of a word use two asterisks. For example, in the form type manage** to find manage, managing, and managed.

• Add the OR keyword to find all instances of either one word or another or both, for example:

  region OR manager

  This query finds all pages that mention region or manager.

• Add the AND keyword to find all instances of both words, for example:

  region AND manager

  This query finds all pages that mention both region and manager.

• Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other. For example, both of these queries, region and manager and region near manager, look for the words region and manager on the same page. But with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.

• Refine your queries with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain text from your search. For example, if you want to find all instances of region but not manager, write the following query:

  region AND NOT manager

• Put quotation marks around keywords if you want the Search Tool to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following query:
  
  "region near manager"
  
  The Search Tool will literally look for the complete phrase region near manager. But if you type the same query without the quotation marks:
  
  region near manager
  
  The Search Tool searches all documents for the words region and manager.