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If you choose Yes for "Words adjacent," you can type in the phrase
computer programming and the system
will understand that you want only records that have the word computer
NEXT to the word programming.
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Lower-case letters will find matches of capitalized words also. For example, computer will find matches for computer, Computer
and COMPUTER.
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You may use the Boolean operators AND and OR in your search string. For
example, you could type (heart OR cardiac) AND surgery to retrieve all
records having heart or cardiac in them, together with the
word surgery.
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Use the ? character to find matches that contain portions
of words. For example, gun? will retrieve gun, guns, gunners,
gunnery, gunning, etc. In another example, ?ology will retrieve
anthropology, archaeology, psychology, etc. The ? character
may also be used to find variant spellings. For example, alumi?m
will find both the American spelling, aluminum, and the British
spelling, aluminium.
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