To search topics in the information center, enter a query in the Search field and click Go.
The Search Results view in the left hand side of the interface displays the top 500 ranked results. Select a search result to display that topic in the right hand side of the help system. The words from your query are highlighted in the displayed topic.
To toggle between the navigation tree and the search results list, click
the Contents tab () or the Search Results tab (
) at the bottom of
the left-hand side of the interface.
Searches are not case-sensitive.
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.
You can use the following wildcard characters:
You can insert the binary operators: AND, OR, and NOT in your search term. For example:
By default, all topics shown in the Contents view are 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:
The search list that is currently active is always shown at the top of the help browser, next to the Search scope link. The search list that you last used persists across sessions that you use the system.