Search Tips
To use this search page, you can look for a single
word. Or, use the tips below to refine your search to find more specific
results.
- Look for a phrase
Example - type housing benefit to find an exact.
- Look for two or more words at once by using the AND operator.
Example - type agendas AND minutes to find documents that
have both the word agendas and the word minutes anywhere.
- Look for words that are close to each other by using the NEAR
operator instead of the AND operator. When you use NEAR, the closer
together the words are, the higher the rank of the page, so the
higher it appears in the list of search results.
Example - type agendas NEAR minutes to match documents where
the word agendas is within 50 words of the word minutes.
- Look for synonyms or similar words by using the OR operator.
Note that if you don't use the OR operator and search using multiple
words, the words are treated as a phrase.
Example - type road OR street to find the word road
or the word street, but not necessarily both.
- Limit your search by using the AND NOT operator to exclude words.
Example - type street AND NOT lighting to find all instances
of street, as long as street is not followed by the
phrase lighting.
- Use double quotes if you want to use AND, OR, NOT, or NEAR literally.
Example - type "houses near parks" to find documents
with the phrase houses near parks. Without the double quotes,
this query would use the NEAR operator instead of the phrase.
- Use a single asterisk (*) to look for words that begin with the
same letters.
Example - type key* to find key, keying, keyhole,
keyboard, and so on.
- Use a double asterisk (**) to look for all forms of a word.
Example - type fly** to match fly, flew, flown,
and flying.
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