Searching the Help

To find information by means of the Search function

1. Click in the search box at the top right of the screen.
2. Enter / type your search text in the box in uppercase or lowercase (the search is not case-sensitive).
3. Optionally check the Match partial words checkbox if you want to search for word fragments rather than entire words.
4. Click the button or press the ENTER key.

   

   The search results display in the left pane:

   

5. Scroll through the results in the left pane, and click any hyperlink that looks appropriate, to display that topic in the main screen.
6. To further refine your search,
   • Click the breadcrumb trail at the top of the main Help pane to go up a level in the topic hierarchy.
   • Open the Contents pane to see where your topic is in the topic hierarchy, then investigate the topics near to it.

   TIP: The Search results will stay in the search pane until you do another search, so no matter where you click and roam, you can simply click the Search tab at any time to return to the last search results.

7. When you have completed searching, to again display the topic tree navigation, click the Contents tab.

Searching with a Partial Word Match

Searches use the Boolean "OR"

Web Help search uses "OR" logic when you type multiple words (or fragments) into the search tex box, so any pages that include any of the words (or fragments) will display in the results.

So if you search for "appointment book", the software considers appointment book or appointment or book, and the results will include

• Topics with the phrase "appointment book", and
• Topics with the word "appointment", and
• Topics with the word "book".

General guidelines

The search logic allows you to run general searches, then scroll through the results to find the specific topic you require.

The search function doesn't differentiate between uppercase or lowercase.

It searches for all specified words, even if they are separated by other words.

Even if you return to the Contents or Index tab, the search results will stay in the Search tab until you either close the Search tab by clicking the [X] Close button on the tab or perform another search. So you can freely investigate specific links without losing the whole search results.

When displaying a topic, investigate around the topic for associated information:

• Click the breadcrumb trail at the top of the main Help pane to go direct to a higher level in the topic hierarchy.
• Open the Contents pane to see where your topic is in the topic hierarchy, then investigate the topics near to it.

Example

This example uses a partial word match using the fragment "state", resulting in many different variations.