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Search Operators

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Search Operators are special characters that refine or expand your searches. You can use Search Operators with Search Keys.

You can use Search Operators everywhere you can do a search.

Search Operators cannot be used on date fields.

List of Search Operators:

Operator

Definition

]

For example: pott]
This will find: things that begin with “pott” For example: “pottery”, “potter”, “potteries”

Starting with cannot be used on Accession Number.

[

Example: [Donald

This will find: things that end with “Donald”. For example: McDonald, MacDonald

Ending with cannot be used on Accession Number.

[ ]

Example: [oil]

This will find: things containing the letters oil in that order, results would include foil, oiliness, doily

Containing cannot be used on Accession Number.

[ ]

Example: []woman

This is a "sounds like" operator, and will locate woman and all items containing other words sounding like the entered data, such a women, woman's.

...

Range e.g. 1...100 or 2010.1...2010.999

<

Less than e.g. <1000 will find numbers from 1 to 999

>

More or greater than e.g. >1000 will find numbers from 1001 to the highest number in the index.

 

Entering only the ']' in the search bar will find everything in that file, i.e. starting with anything. Use with caution if there are a lot of records in a datafile.