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Queries Options Boolean operators such as AND, OR, NOT,NEAR to narrow your search. When typing more than one word the boolean operator" AND " is automatically inserted. FORMAT sets the search results style between different types of templates. • Simple searches provide you with a list of documents and the relevance ranking of each document through frequency statistics. • Expanded searches provide you with a brief sample of the document’s content as well as the information found with simple search. • Custom searches provide you with more details about the results as well as the information found with an expanded search. Proximity Search or Near Operator You can search for terms that occur within a paragraph, provided the administrator has built the database(s) with paragraph option. When typing two words within double quotes, the "near" operator will be automatically inserted. Exact phrase You can search for an exact phrase (query containing more than one term) in a document by putting single quotes around the search query, provided the server you are trying to search also supports exact phrase searching. Exact phrase and boolean operation Complex queries containing an exact phrase and a single search can be performed by entering the exact phase in the first text box and a single term in the second text box labelled "Optional". The first text box accepts both a single term and an exact phrase while the second box accepts only single terms. Wild card You can use wild card search to get results that start with particular characters. For example, to get documents containing terms that begin with comp, enter comp* as the search term. Click here if your are having problems connecting to the search server

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