Searches produce a list of assemblies that
contain the word or phrase no matter where they appear in the
text. This list gives the rules for formulating search queries:
Consecutive words are treated as a
phrase; they must appear in the same order within a
matching document.
Search queries are case-insensitive,
so you can enter the search text in uppercase or
lowercase.
You can search for any word except for
those in the exception list such as a, an,
and, as and other common English words.
These words will be ignored during the search.
Words in the exception list are
treated as placeholders in phrase and proximity searches.
For example, if you searched for Word for Windows,
the results could give you Word for Windows and Word
and Windows, beacuse for is a common word
that appears in the exception list.
Punctuation marks such as period (.),
colon (:), semicolon (;) and comma (,) are ignored during
a search.
To use specially treated characters
such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, ( and ) in a search query,
enclose your search string in quotation marks (").
To search for a word or phrase
containing quotation marks, enclose the entire phrase in
quotation marks and then double the quotation marks
around the word or words that you want to surround with
quotes. For example, "World-Wide Web or
""Web""" searches for World-Wide
Web or "Web".
You can insert boolean operators (AND,
OR and NOT) and the proximity operator
(NEAR) to specify additional search information.
The wildcard character (*) can match
words with a given prefix. The query esc*
matches the terms ESC, escape and so
on.
