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Search Tips

Use multiple words
Use multiple words when performing your search. The search results will return more refined results from several words than from a single word. For example, typing "company press releases" will return more relevant results than typing only "releases". (Keep in mind, relevant results are returned even if they don't contain all query terms.)

Use quotation marks
Use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other, for example, "our pledge to you." Otherwise, the search results will include the word "our", "pledge", "to", and "you", but not necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in any order, within the document.

Use plus (+) or minus (-)
Use a plus sign (+) to tell the search engine whether your search term or phrase must appear in the search results. Use a minus sign (-) to indicate undesirable term(s). The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results. The signs must be typed before the word without any spaces in between, for example, "+corporate -press". The results will display any pages that contain the word "corporate" but doesn't include any page with the word "press".

Note: A phrase must be contained within quotation marks. Leave no spaces between the plus or minus sign and the term.

Use wildcards
Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character.
For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh.
Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her.

Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (-) modifiers, quotes for phrases, as well as the field search specifiers.
+wh* -se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends with ch.
"wh* are" will find the phrases where are, what are, why are, etc.