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] 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.
