Search Using | Example(s) | Finds all documents with: |
Single Word
(enter word all in lower/upper case to find all versions of the word; mixed case is case-sensitive) | asthma Asthma
guard
WCB
clean-up | - the word and all versions of the word asthma, Asthma, or ASTHMA
- Asthma only, not asthma or ASTHMA
- single and plural forms of the word, e.g. guard, guards
- WCB only
- clean up as well as clean-up
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Multiple Words
| infectious diseases
violence threats harassment | - any of the words infectious, disease or diseases
- any of the words violence, threat, threats or harassment
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Question or Plain Language Phrase
(identifies the important words and searches them) | What are the causes of mould in schools? | - the words cause, mould, moulds, school as well as schools
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Wildcard (*)
(for one or more characters) | lab*r poison* | - the word labor or labour
- the words poison, poisons as well as poisonous
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Exact Phrase
(any string of characters) | "inspection checklist"
"cause of mould in schools" | - the phrase inspection checklist
- the phrase cause of mould in schools
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| Name | JOHN SMITH
AIDS | - the name John Smith
- AIDS only
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Excluding Specific Terms
(use minus sign) | moulds -schools"infectious diseases" -AIDS | - the word moulds but not the word schools
- the phrase infectious diseases but not the word AIDS
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Requiring Specific Terms
(use plus sign) | moulds +schools"noise levels" +construction | - the word schools and possibly the word moulds
- the word construction and possibly the phrase noise levels
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Title
(use the colon) | title:garagetitle:"inspection checklist" | - in the document title, finds the words garage as well as garages
- in the document title, finds the phrase inspection checklist as well as inspection checklists
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