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To locate words, just type them in as you would in a word processor. Letter cases will be ignored.
The wild-card character *
(asterisk) may be used to match
just the prefix of a word or to ignore the middle of something.
If the item you wish to locate is more complicated than the simple *
wild-card
can accomplish, try using the regular
expression matcher (http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/pages/regexp.html).
To locate a number of adjacent words in a specific order, surround them with
"
(double quotation) characters. Putting a -
(hyphen)
between words will also force order and one word proximity.
Query | Locates |
john | john, John |
"john public" | John Public |
web-browser | Web browser, web-browser |
John*Public | John Q. Public, John Public |
456*a*def | 1-456-789-ABCDEF |
activate | activate, activation, activated, ... * |
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