| Search Help |
To perform a simple search, type one or more words in the Search box at the top of the page and click Search. Our Search returns a list of results that contain one or more of your words. Search finds singular and plural forms of words and corrects minor misspellings. The most relevant items appear at the top of your results.
Effective Search Strategies
To make your search more effective, do the following:
- Be specific. Try using words that are unique or try adding descriptive words.
- Try using synonyms. If you get too few results or Search doesn’t find what you are looking for, try synonyms for your original words.
- Check you spelling. A single misspelled or mistyped word can change your results.
- Learn from your results. Your search may not return exactly what you’re looking for, but scanning the results may help you see the words that were found and give you ideas for other searches.
Search isn’t case sensitive, so don’t worry about capitalization.
Improving your search words
Exact phrase search
Add double quotes (“ “) around specific phrases to focus your search on the exact phrase. A phrase search can greatly reduce the number of results.
Including and excluding words
To help limit your results to specific information you can include special modifiers that require certain words to be included or excluded. Do not leave any space between the sign and the word, but leave a space between search words.
+ (plus sign)
Use a + sign at the beginning of a word to require that the word appear in all pages in the results.
- (minus sign)
Use a – sign at the beginning of a word to exclude all pages with that word.
Using advanced search
Use advanced search for greater control over your search.
1. Search for:
Type one or more words. The plus sign (+), minus sign (-), and double quotes
(“ “) are ignored in Advanced search. Also select the criteria you want to use:
Choose all of the words to request a narrower search. Each result contains all of your search words in any order
Choose any of the words to request a broader search. Each result contains one or more of your search terms in any order.
Choose the exact phrase to request a search of a phrase in the order you enter the words. Each result contains the exact phrase.
2. Exclude the words:
Type or more words. Also select the criteria you want to use:
Choose any of the words.
Choose the exact phrase.
3. Search in:
Select All categories for a broad search.
Select a specific category for a narrow search.
