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Administrator<br />

Advanced Text Searching<br />

E-Notebook offers a number of advanced text<br />

searching options for searching Notes and MS<br />

Word documents in the application. Using specific<br />

operators in an advanced search allows you to<br />

narrow search parameters dramatically.<br />

Escape Characters<br />

In order to perform a query over words or symbols<br />

that have special meaning to query expressions,<br />

such as & or |, you must escape them. There are two<br />

ways to escape characters in a query expression,<br />

using curly brackets {} or a backslash \.<br />

Curly Brackets {}<br />

Use braces to escape a string of characters or<br />

symbols. Everything within a set of braces in<br />

considered part of the escape sequence. When you<br />

use braces to escape a single character, the escaped<br />

character becomes a separate token in the query.<br />

The following table has examples of how to use<br />

curly brackets to escape an ampersand (&) and<br />

a dash (-).<br />

Instead of<br />

AT&T<br />

high-voltage<br />

Use<br />

AT\&T<br />

high\-voltage<br />

ABOUT<br />

The ABOUT operator, when used in an advanced<br />

text search, retrieves documents that contain<br />

information related to a word or phrase.<br />

Use the ABOUT operator by entering the word<br />

ABOUT in all capital letters followed by the word or<br />

phrase on which to search in parentheses.<br />

ABOUT searches are always case-sensitive. The text<br />

string inside the parentheses is interpreted with<br />

respect to case.<br />

For example, the following searches really mean:<br />

Searching For ... Returns ...<br />

Instead of<br />

AT&T<br />

Use<br />

{AT&T}<br />

ABOUT (carbon)<br />

any word with words<br />

related to carbon in the<br />

document’s text. Matches<br />

include coal and diamond.<br />

high-voltage<br />

{high-voltage}<br />

Backslash \<br />

Use the backslash character to escape a single<br />

character or symbol. Only the character<br />

immediately following the backslash is escaped.<br />

The following table has examples of how to use a<br />

backslash to escape an ampersand (&) and a dash (-)<br />

ABOUT (carbon byproducts<br />

from<br />

syntheses at 25<br />

degrees Celsius)<br />

any phrases with words<br />

related to “carbon byproducts<br />

from syntheses at<br />

25 degrees Celsius” in the<br />

document’s text.<br />

The ABOUT operator becomes very powerful when<br />

coupled with other operators, such as AND or NOT.<br />

470• Searching <strong>CambridgeSoft</strong><br />

Searching for Text with the Query Text Field

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