Search Help

Searching is a very powerful tool for locating information. Search results are ordered by the number of matching words, and words are highlighted when viewing the pages. For example, these searches will find a page containing the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

• Single or multiple words may be entered, separated by spaces or punctuation:
  • lazy
  • brown lazy dog
  • brown,lazy,dog
• Words may be entered in any order, and are not case specific:
  • dog brown lazy
  • Dog BrOwN LAZY
• Preceed a word with a hyphen (-) to exclude pages containing that word:
  • dog brown -aardvark
• An asterisk (*) may be used for a wildcard at the beginning or end of a word, to match any characters:
  • lazy qu*
  • lazy *ick
  • lazy quick*
• An exact phrase (including punctuation) may be entered by enclosing it in quotes:
  • “lazy dog”
  • “lazy dog.”
• A namespace may be added to limit searching to that area:
  • brown @cobs
  • brown @dutton
• Words shorter than 3 characters, and very common words like “and” or “the” are ignored:
  • lazy qx