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Keyword Search
To find item records containing specific key words:
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Please Note:
- You should use important or key words in the Search for box. Key words are not case sensitive, so cats is the same as CATS
- You can use wildcard characters in any key word to instruct the system to find records containing derivatives of the key word, i.e.
- Use an * (asterisk) to designate one or more unspecified characters in a key word
- Type hos* to find hose, host, hostess, etc.
- Type wa*n to find warn, walton, warden, washington, etc.
- Use a single question mark to designate a single unspecified character
- Type ho? to find hop, hog, hot, etc.
- Type wa?n to find warn
- Use two question marks to designate two unspecified characters, and so forth.
- Type w??en to find women, woven, Woden, etc.
- You can use proximity indicator, & , between two key words to search only for records where those words appear a specified number of characters apart.
- Proximity indicators are possible within ONE category only.
- Proximity indicators are possible between TWO terms only.
- Type lung &2 cancer, to find lung within two characters of cancer.
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