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Q145800: Pregnancy: "Find" Tips and Tricks

Article: Q145800
Product(s): Microsoft Home Multimedia Titles
Version(s): WINDOWS:95
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 01-JUN-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Pregnancy and Child Care, Preview on MSN 
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SUMMARY
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The Find By Word feature included in Microsoft Pregnancy and Child Care supports
the use of search operators.

MORE INFORMATION
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Before using the tips and tricks listed below, make sure the "Search article
text instead of article titles" check box is selected. The option is available
at the bottom of the Find By Word dialog box.

If you use the Find By Word feature, you can narrow the scope of a full-text
search by using the search operators AND, OR, ? and *

When you enter the search text, you can enter an operator in either lowercase or
uppercase letters. For example, "and" (without the quotation marks) is the same
as "AND". By default, multiple search operators are evaluated from left to
right. You can use parentheses ( ) to specify a different order.

NOTE: Operators within parentheses are evaluated first.

This Example                     Searches For
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baby AND food                    Articles containing both the word
                               "baby" and the word "food."

baby food                       Articles containing "baby" and "food"
                               (same as "baby AND food" above). AND
                               is the default operator.

baby OR food                    Articles containing "baby" or "food"
                               or both.

(baby OR system) reproductive   Articles containing the word "baby" or
                               "system" and also containing the word
                               "reproductive".

reproduc*                       Articles containing words that begin
                               with "reproduc" such as reproduction,
                               reproductive, and reproduce. ("*",
                               asterisk, is a multiple-character
                               wildcard operator that is used to find
                               all words that begin with the same
                               letters.

reproduc?                       Articles containing words that begin
                               with "reproduc" and end with 1
                               character such as reproduce.
                               ("?",question mark, is a single-
                               character wildcard operator that is
                               used to find all words that begin with
                               the same letters but have only one
                               character at the end.)

Stop-Word List
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Microsoft Pregnancy and Child Care will not look for words that are in its
stop-word list. These are commonly used words that if used, can severely
lengthen the search time. The stop-word list contains the following words:

  a
  also
  an
  and
  are
  as
  at
  be
  by
  can
  for
  from
  have
  if
  in
  is
  it
  may
  not
  of
  on
  or
  that
  the
  their
  their
  this
  to
  when
  with
  you
  your

Additional query words: 1.0multi media multimedia multi-media mmtitles kbmm finds searching searches search searched finding found

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMSNSearch
Version           : WINDOWS:95

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