Search DMS

To search for	Example	Results
both terms in the same page	access and basic -or- access & basic	pages with both the words "access" and "basic"
either term in a page	cgi or isapi -or- cgi \| isapi	pages with the words "cgi" or "isapi"
the first term without the second term	access and not basic -or- access & ! basic	pages with the word "access" but not "basic"
both terms in the same page, close together	excel near project -or- excel ~ project	pages with the word "excel" near the word "project"

Wildcard Operators

Wildcard operators are useful for finding pages with words similar to a given word.

To search for	Example	Results
words with the same prefix	comput*	pages with words that have the prefix "comput", such as "computer", computing", and so on.
words based on the same stem word	fly**	pages with words based on the same stem as "fly", such as "flying", "flown", "flew", and so on.

Queries are case-insensitive: you can type your query in uppercase or lowercase.
You may search for any word except for those in the exception list (for English, this includes a, an, and, as, and other common words) which are ignored during a search. Words in the exception list are treated as placeholders in phrase and proximity queries.
Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), and comma (,) are ignored during a search.
To use specially-treated characters ( (&), (|), (^), (#), (@), ($), ((), ()) ) in a query, enclose your query in quotes (").