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# Search help topics

1. On any screen, click the icon in the banner to open the help sidebar.

2. In the Help sidebar, select Help on this page.

   Context-specific help appears in a separate browser window.

3. In the new browser window where the help is displayed, click Search at the top of the left navigation pane, next to the Contents and Index links.

   UI help search box

4. Enter a search term in the Search box.

5. Press Enter or click List Topics to start the search process.

   Search results are presented as links to the sections in which the search term appears.

6. Scan the search results for the section title or titles that best match what you are looking for, and click the link to view the content. Each instance of your search term is highlighted in yellow for easy identification.

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Help search features and limitations

## Help search features and limitations

#### Features

Case sensitivy. | By default, searches are case-insensitive. The Case sensitive check box enables you to search matching the case of the word or phrase you enter.
Full word and phrase matches | You can search for full or hyphenated words. Phrase search enables you to search for documents containing an exact sentence or phrase by entering the search text in double quotes (`“`). Do not include special characters in the search text of a phrase search.
Wildcard characters | The wildcard feature enables you to replace individual letters, or sequences of letters, within the search word. Use a question mark (`?`) to replace a single character. Use an asterisk (`*`) to represent several (or zero) characters.
Keyboard pasted characters | When entering a search keyword, you may find it useful to copy it from another window, right-click in the text box, and select Paste.
Boolean operators | This feature lets you combine keywords with the Boolean operators to produce more relevant results: Use a space character for Boolean AND. Use either `OR` or `or` for Boolean OR. Use a hyphen character (`-`) for NOT.
Auto complete | Auto-complete monitors what you are typing and, after typing the first few characters, displays a list of suggested words. If one of those words matches what you intended to type, you can select it from the list.
Highlighting | Search highlighting highlights the searched key words or phrase in the resulting documents.
Fuzzy search | Like a spelling corrector, a fuzzy search tries to correct misspelled search text and suggests corrected text.
Proximity search | Proximity search looks for documents where two or more word occurrences are at most ten words apart. The proximity search operators are `NEAR` and `FBY` (meaning “followed by”). These operators can be entered in upper or lower case.
Synonym search | This feature suggests links to synonyms of the keyword.

#### Limitations

Special characters | Special characters are not allowed in word search. The search function does not return topics or index entries that contain special characters, such as the copyright symbol. The backslash character (`\`) is not allowed inside a phrase.
Hypen | The search function does not return topics or index entries that contain a hyphen.
Common words | The search feature does not return common words such as `a`, `an`, and `the`.
Initials | The search function does not return topics or index entries that contain initials, such `L.P.`.
Boolean searches | Boolean operator names must be entered in English. The AND and OR Boolean operators cannot be combined in a search text. NOT operators must be at the end of the search string.
Proximity searches | The proximity operators must be entered in English.

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