How to use the search function

FROM THE USA? Please use UK medical spelling, eg 'tumour' instead of 'tumor' etc

Case:

The search engine is case insensitive so the query User Manual will return the same results as user manual.

Keyword Search:

The query, user manual will return all documents containing the words user and manual. This type of search will return the same results as a Boolean search for user AND manual.

Phrase Search:

The query, "user manual" (including the quotation marks) will only return documents containing user manual.

Boolean Searches:

The query, user AND NOT manual will return documents containing user but not manual.
The query, user AND manual will return documents containing the words user and manual.
The query, user OR manual will return documents containing user and also documents containing manual.

Proximity Searches:

The query, user NEAR manual will return documents containing the word user NEAR the word manual.

Exceptions:

Punctuation marks:

Punctuation marks such as: ; (semicolon), : (colon), . (full stop/period), , (comma) and others are ignored by the search engine.

Special Characters:

To use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query, enclose your query in quotation marks (“).

'Noise' words:

These are common words such as: a, an, and, as and others. These words will be ignored by the search engine unless they are part of a Boolean search.

Advanced:

The query @size > 1000 will return all documents with a size greater than 1KB.
The query #filename *.doc will return only word documents.
The query @write > 01/2/1 10:00:00 will return only documents modified since the 1st Feb 2001 at 12:00am.
The query man* will return all documents containing "man" as part of a word, i.e. "manual", manually" and so on.

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