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Search Tips
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4 Click New Search if you want to start a brand new search.
All the current criteria will be cleared from the tabs so you can
enter new criteria.
Search Tips
This section contains search tips that may be helpful when you are using
PageKeeper Find.
Entering Search Text
These are tips for entering search text in the Content tab:
• Use meaningful search words that describe the information you
are seeking.
PageKeeper indexes documents so that they can be quickly
retrieved. To make document indexes more efficient and
meaningful, PageKeeper filters out
stopwords . These are words, such
as and , on and the , that do not add significant meaning to a
document. PageKeeper ignores stopwords during a search.
• Do not use punctuation marks such as quotation marks or
commas to denote your search entries. Use spaces to separate
multiple word entries.
• Select Treat text as a phrase if you want to require that all search
words be found in their exact order. This excludes stopwords
such as
and, on
or
the
, which are ignored during a search.
• Use the Word matching settings in the Content tab to select how
exact you want PageKeeper to be when it looks for words. See
“Word matching” on page 83 for more information.
• Use an asterisk (*) to perform wildcard searches if you are not
sure of the spelling for particular words. For example, if you are
trying to find someone’s name, and you are not sure of the exact
spelling, you could use a wildcard within your search text. The
search entry
Hans*n would return documents that contained
Hansen or Hanson .
Searching for Similar Documents
If PageKeeper retrieves a document that you are interested in, you can
use that document as a model for another search. Select the document in
the results list and click
Find more like this above the results list.
PageKeeper will look for and retrieve all other documents that are
similar to that document.