Version 2.0 | June 2005
Basic Searching: Linking Keywords with Booleans AND, OR NOT
Example: Use AND to link keywords and keyword phrases that you want to match anywhere on the same page of text or in the same row of an interactive table.
Example: Use OR to link keywords and keyword phrases that you want to match independently on any page of text or in any row of an interactive table.
Example: Use NOT before keywords or keyword phrases that you do not want to be on the same page of text or in the same row of an interactive table.
- AND: Linking keywords with AND will normally produce more hits than using NEXT or NEAR proximity.
- OR: is useful to link interchangeable or similar keywords to get more hits. OR will normally produce more hits than using AND.
- NOT: The Search executes NOT as AND NOT. Use of NOT at the beginning of the search query is not supported.
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