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Document searching "cheat sheet"
example search term: breach contract.
By default, WORLDOX treats the terms as a
proximity search within three words (w/3).
“AND” Searches
WORLDOX supports the logical AND operator.
Joining terms with AND results in any documents
that have all of the words, irrespective of how far
apart each term occurs and their order within the
document. For example, searching for breach AND
contract returns any document that has both terms.
“OR” Searches
WORLDOX supports the logical OR operator.
Joining terms with OR results in any documents that
have any one or more of the words. Note the
difference from AND, which requires that all the
specified words appear in the document.
Word Variations (Stemming)
WORLDOX text searching supports the use of the
wildcard character “*” for word stemming. Use the
asterisk when you want to search for variations of a
term. For example, searching for pres* will find such
words as pressure, president and press. You can
place asterisks only at the end of a series of letters,
not at the beginning of a word. WORLDOX also
supports the use of word stemming within phrases.
Phrase Searches
Search for complete, literal phrases by enclosing the
words in quotation marks. Words enclosed in
quotation marks (“like this”) will appear together in
all results, exactly as entered. Phrase searches are
especially useful when looking for company names,
direct quotes and proper names.
Proximity Searches
Proximity searching allows you to combine search
terms by specifying the maximum number of words
between the terms. WORLDOX offers two types of
proximity searches.
“W/x” Proximity Searches
Use the “W/x” operator, where x is the maximum
number of words of separation allowed. For
example, searching for microsoft w/5 lawsuit
locates documents where the terms “microsoft” and
“lawsuit” occur within five words of one another.
Note that the order in which the words occur is not
significant—only their relative position (proximity) to
one another matters.