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Use Wild Card Characters
You can use the following wild card characters in any keyword:
DescriptionSymbol
Replaces one or more characters when used
at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.
*
For example, “*lish”, “p*lish”, and “pub*”
will all find “publish”. Also, “anno*” will
find “annotative”, “annotation”, “annoup-
date”, “annoreset”, and so on.
Replaces a single character. For example,
“cop?” will find “copy”, but not “copy-
base”.
?
Expands the tense of the word at the begin-
ning or end of a word. For example, “plot-
~
ting~” will find “plots”, “plotted”, and so
on. Also, “~plot” will find “preplot”,
“replot”, and so on.
Search for Phrases
When searching for a phrase, use double quotation marks (“ ”) to enclose
words that must appear next to each other in the specified sequence. For
example, enter “specifying units of measurement” to find only topics with all
those words in that order. If you don’t use the quotation marks around that
text, Help finds all topics containing any one of the listed words, that is, all
topics containing “specifying”, all topics containing “units”, all topics
containing “of”, and all topics containing “measurement”.
TIP If you can’t find the information you need through a search, try using the
Contents tab.
Use Boolean Operators
With the AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR operators, you can precisely define your
search by creating a relationship between search terms. The following table
shows how you can use each of these operators. If no operator is specified,
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