Help - Searching

The search facility is turned on or off by your site administrator. If it is on, you will see a box for entering your search terms and a button labelled "Search". it will be on the header of the page, or in one of the blocks on either side of the page.

Like most search facilities, enter a word or words you want to search for and click the button.

The wild card * performs the usual function of searching for “everything that starts with”

Multiple words are searched as A or B, i.e. it returns pages that have one or more of the words. There is no search only for pages that have both A and B.

You can only search on individual words, not phrases in quotes. There is no sorting by date or other parameters.

When searching for numerical data such as dates, IP addresses or version numbers, it considers a group of numerical characters separated only by punctuation characters to be one piece. This also means that searching for e.g. '20/03/1984' also returns results with '20-03-1984' in them.

The dot, underscore and dash are simply removed. This allows meaningful search behaviour with acronyms and URLs.

With the exception of the rules above, search considers all punctuation, marks, spacers, etc, to be a word boundary.

You might also consider using Google. Start your query with "site:example.com", so you would enter site:example.com my search query or use the "Search this site" button on the Google toolbar.

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