Committee Agendas
Introduction
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Cabinet Decisions before Sept 2005
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Tips for Searching
At its simplest, the query can be just a word
or a phrase. But you can expand the focus of your query to give you more
complete and worthwhile results.
Look for words with the same prefix. For
example, in your query form type key*
to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard, and so on. The * acts as a wild card (anything after).
Search for all grammatical forms of a
word. For example, in the form type sink** to find sink, sinking, sank, and sunk.
Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other. For example, both of
these queries, system and manager and system near manager, look for the
words system and manager on the same page. But with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity:
The closer together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.
Refine your queries with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain text from
your search. For example, if you want to find all instances of surfing but not the
Net, write the following query:
surfing AND NOT the Net
- Add the OR
keyword to find all instances of either one word or another, for example:
Abbott OR Costello
This query finds all pages that mention Abbott or
Costello or both.
Put quotation marks around keywords if
you want the Search to take them literally. For instance, if you type the
following query:
"system
near manager"
Search will literally look for the complete phrase system near manager. But if you type the same query without the
quotation marks:
system near
manager
Searches all documents for the words system and manager.
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