Search Tips

Having trouble finding the document you need?  Here’s a few search tips:

1. Directly below the white box where you entered your search terms you will see a drop down menu with options to: Find ANY word, Find ALL words, Find EXACT phrase. Choosing ALL or EXACT will narrow down the number of documents that come up in your search.
   
2. By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling the search engine to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change.
   
3. You can use Boolean logic: Boolean logic is essentially very simple. When used in constructing a search expression, it can be very useful in specifying exactly what information you want.

Boolean Operators : + -

Use + in front of each word or a quoted phrase that you require.
Use - in front of each word that you want to exclude.

Boolean Expressions: AND OR NOT ( )

Use AND, OR, NOT, (, and ) to form a Boolean expression. AND requires, OR allows, NOT excludes.
Use double quotes to protect the words "and", "or", or "not" in a phrase.

Examples:

Capitalization doesn't matter. The ranked results will come from a total match on the words and phrases which you supply, so try to think of several specific terms for your topic and spell them correctly. It may help to include important plurals and derived words too, like [address addresses contact contacting information].