Summary of Auxiliary Search Term Symbols:

Search terms may contain the following:

• a single word: finds all documents containing that word
• multiple words: finds all documents containing any, some, or all of the words
• + in front of a word: the word must be present in each document retrieved
• - in front of a word: the word must not be in the documents retrieved
• ~ in front of a word: the word is of little importance but do not exclude it altogether
• * at the end of a word: finds documents with words beginning with the indicated stem
• () parentheses may be used to group words
• " " a phrase enclosed in double quotes must appear as typed

Examples:

• sales training: Find documents that contain at least one of the two words.
• +sales +training: Find documents that contain both words.
• +training results: Find documents that contain the word “training”, but rank documents higher if they also contain “results”.
• +effectiveness -training: Find documents that contain "effectiveness" but not "training"
• effective*: Find documents that contain words such as “effectiveness”, “effectively”, or “effective”.
• “effectiveness solutions provider”: Find documents that contain the exact phrase “effectiveness solutions provider”.