This page provides help on how to enter search text and what abbreviations/values to use for document categories, document types, host computers and organizations.

Use the following examples to help you enter information into the search text fields:

Here's a few rules to remember when specifying search text:

• The search criteria is not case sensitive
• Fields that are considered to contain one word such as document number, document type, host computer, and organization do not support the use of 'and', 'and not', and 'or'
• The asterisk (*) represents zero or more characters
• The question mark (?) represents exactly one character
• Multiple asterisks and/or question marks are allowed in the same word
• Consecutive asterisks are not allowed but consecutive question marks are allowed as shown in the example above
• Asterisks and question marks may be positioned anywhere in a word as long as they don't break any of the previous rules
• The search engine currently limits the length of a single word (including Document Numbers) it can find to 120 characters. In the unlikely event that you need to find a word longer than 120 characters, simply type in the first 119 (or less) characters of the word followed by an asterisk (*) to locate the document containing the word.