| SEARCH
TYPE |
EXAMPLE |
DESCRIPTION |
| Single
Word |
run |
A
Single Word search will return documents containing the word
or forms of the word. If you were to search for run, you would
find documents containing "running", "ran" and "runner" as well
as "run". |
| Accrue |
bill
clinton |
An
Accrue search will return all documents containing any of the
words given. |
| Phrase |
"on
error" |
A
Phrase search—enclosed in quotes—will return documents
containing instances of the exact string only. The given phrase
must appear in documents together and in the exact order. |
| Wildcard |
*ful
ful*
*ful* |
A
Wildcard search will return documents containing the word or
letters provided plus any combination of letters in place of
the asterisk. (i.e. text in blue replaces the asterisk in the
example: beauti-ful
; ful-fill
;
art-ful-ly) |
| Boolean |
+bill
+hillary
+clinton -gore |
A
Boolean search returns documents containing words under conditional
criteria. A word preceded by a plus (+) indicates that the word
provided is mandatory to any documents returned; while a minus
(-) returns only those documents that do NOT contain the word
that follows it.
NOTE: Minus (-) takes
precedence over plus (+). |