Tips for Searching

Use these tips to make searching easier.

• Enter multiple terms with a space between them. The search tool searches for any instance of each term in the list.
• Enter terms in any combination of upper and lower case. Search terms are not case sensitive.
• Include any of the following characters in your search terms: A-Z a-z 0-9 _ - . ' , $ %.
• Place a plus sign (+) in front of each word that must appear in the results. For example, if you enter +briefing +notes +record, the search tool will find all pages that have all three words in them. Note that the three words may not necessarily be adjacent to each other, but they will be in the same page.
• Place a minus sign (-) in front of words that you do not want to appear in the results. For example, if you enter +briefing +notes -record, the search tool will find all pages that have the words "briefing" and "notes" but not "record."
• Exclude common words (a, an, the, etc.) from your search terms; these words are not part of the search index.