Formulate your queries and restrict your search to a given scope to help improve your search results.
Searching the information center | To search the information center topics that are included in the table of contents, enter a search term in the Search box of your information center border, and click Go. The search results are displayed
in the navigation area, replacing the table of contents. When you select a
topic from the search results list, optionally click the Show in Table
of Contents ( Use additional buttons to toggle between
search results and the table of contents in the navigation area.
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Searching part of the documentation | By default, each topic shown in the Contents view
is searched. However, you can narrow your searches to a particular set of
topics, called a search list and save search lists to use again later. To
create a search list, complete the following steps:
The search list that is currently active is always displayed at the beginning of the help browser, beside the Search scope link. The search list that you last used persists across sessions. In some browsers (for example Konqueror and Safari), the functionality used to save search lists is not provided. |
Showing and hiding article summaries | You can show or hide the summaries of articles
in the Search Results view. In the Search Results view, complete the following
actions:
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Grouping the search results | Group your search results by clicking Platform, Product,
or None in the search results view. The search results are displayed according to the selection criteria. |
Searching a topic and its subtopics | You can search a topic, or a topic and its
subtopics, from the Navigation view. |
Enabling and disabling search highlighting | The search highlighting feature highlights
the occurrences of your search terms in a topic you selected from the search
results list. When many occurrences of your search terms exist in a topic,
you might want to disable this feature. Complete the following actions:
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Searching for exact words or phrases | You can identify a search phrase as an exact string by enclosing it in double quotation marks. For example, enter "log file" to search for the string log file, not the separate words log and file. Without the quotation marks, the search term is interpreted to find instances of both the word log and the word file in the topics. In English and German languages only, the search engine "stems" other forms of a single search word. For example, a search for the word challenge, also finds the word challenging. Surround the terms you enter in the search field with double quotation marks when you do not want your search results to include such variations of the terms. |
Searching with wildcards | You can use the following wildcard characters:
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Searching with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) | You can insert the binary operators: AND, OR,
and NOT in your search term. For example:
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Searching titles only | The Site Map document lists the titles of each information center topic that is available for one edition of the product. Use your browser Find function to search the Site Map for a key word. |