In the Help Viewer, use the Search tab to search for
words or phrases in the help system. You can create basic searches
by typing simple words or phrases, or you can create more complex
searches using wildcards and nested search expressions.
Type in the words to search
Allows you to enter the text to search for. You can search for
any combination of letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9) except for
single letters. Search text is not case sensitive. Punctuation
marks such as the period, colon, semicolon, comma, and hyphen are
ignored during a search. Use double quotes or parentheses to set
apart each element of a search.
AND, OR, NEAR, NOT
Search operators that you can use to
filter a search query by providing a connection between the
expressions in the query.
List Topics
Displays the topics that contain the text in the selected topic
list.
Display
Displays the help topic in the topic pane.
Select topic
Displays the list of topics that were found to contain the word
or phrase you entered, or that met the search query criteria.
Title
The help topic title.
Location
The name of the help system in which the topics were
found.
Rank
A number assigned, in ascending order, to each topic in the
search.
Search previous results
Limits the search by scanning only the topics that were found
in the previous search.
Match similar words
Includes minor grammatical variations of the word or phrase in
the search. For example, a search for the word "add" will find
"add," "adds," and "added."
Search titles only
Limits a search by searching only the titles of the help topics
for the chosen word and not the entire contents of the help
topics.