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Searching in the information center

To search topics in the information center, enter a query in the Search field and click Go. The Search Results view in the left side of the interface displays the top 500 ranked results.

Select a search result to display that topic in the right side of the information center. The words from your query are highlighted in the displayed topic.

To toggle between the Contents view and the Search Results list, click the Contents tab (Contents icon) or the Search Results tab (Search Results icon) at the bottom of the Navigation pane on the left side of the information center.

Searches are not case-sensitive.

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, “log file” searches 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 only, the search engine “stems” other forms of a single search word. For example, a search for the word challenge, will also find 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 wildcard characters

You can use the following wildcard characters:
  • Asterisk (*) represents multiple unknown or variable characters in the term. For example, the search term par* returns partly, participate, partial, and other words beginning with par.
  • Question mark (?) represents a single unknown or variable character. For example, the search term par? returns part but not partial or partly.

Searching with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)

You can insert the binary operators AND, OR, and NOT in your search term. For example:

database AND "log file"
Narrows the search to return topics that contain both of the terms “database” and “log file” anywhere in the topic.
database OR "log file"
Widens the search to return topics that contain either the term “database” or the phrase “log file” anywhere in the topic.
database NOT "log file"
Searches for topics that contain “database” but that do not contain the phrase “log file”.
database OR "data base" NOT "log file"
Searches for topics that contain the term “database” or the phrase “data base” but do not contain the phrase “log file” anywhere.

Narrowing your search scope

By default, all topics shown in the Contents view are searched. You can, however, 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:
  1. Click the Search scope link next to the Search field. The Select Search Scope window opens.
  2. Select the Search only the following topics radio button and click the New button. The New Search List window opens.
  3. In the Topics to search list, select the navigation categories that you want to include in your search. You can expand categories to select only certain subcategories.
Note: In some browsers (for example Konqueror and Safari), the functionality to save search lists is not provided.

The search list that is currently active is always shown at the top of the information center, next to the Search scope link. The search list that you used most recently persists across sessions.

Related concepts
Prerequisite software for the information center
Navigating in the information center
Setting bookmarks in the information center
Printing information
Viewing information in different languages
Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts in the information center


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Update icon Last updated: 2006-12-15