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Here's how you can refine your search. The Altium Wiki will ignore common words like "the" unless you place your query within quotes.

Exact phrase search

To search for content that contains the exact phrase "chalk and cheese"

Code Block
 
"chalk and cheese" 

Or Search

To search for content that contains one of the terms, "chalk" OR "cheese"

Code Block
 
chalk OR cheese 

And Search

To search for content that contains both the terms "chalk" AND "cheese"

Code Block
 
chalk AND cheese 

Not search

To search for content that contains "chalk" but NOT "cheese"

Code Block
 
chalk NOT cheese 

Excluded Term search

Similar to the NOT search, to search for content that contains "chalk" and "butter" but NOT "cheese"

Code Block
 
chalk butter -cheese 

Grouping Search

To search for content that MUST contain "chalk" but CAN contain either "cheese" or "butter" use the search:

Code Block
 
(cheese OR butter) AND chalk 

Title Search

To search for content with "chalk" in its title, where title is the field keyword.

Code Block
 
title:chalk 

Wild card searches

Single character

To search for "butter" or "batter" you can use the search:

Code Block
 
b?tter 


To search for "chicken" or "chickpea" you can use the search:

Code Block
 
chick* 


(info) Wildcards can be used anywhere within a word, except at the very beginning.
For example:

Code Block
 
*chick 


is an invalid search term.
 
Multiple characters

To search for "chick" or "chickpea":

Code Block
 
c*c* 


You can also combine search characters to get the exact word. For example the search term below will return "chick" yet not "chickpea":

Code Block
 
c*c? 

Proximity searches

(info) This search ensure that the two words specified must be within a certain number of words of each other to be included.

Code Block
 
"octagon post"~1 


will return "Octagon blog post".

Code Block
 
"octagon post"~0 

is an invalid search term.

Range search

(info) Searches for names that fall alphabetically within the specifed range.

Code Block
 
[adam to ben] 

Note: You can't use the AND keyword inside this statement.

Fuzzy search

(info) This search looks for words spelled similarly.

To search for octagon, if unsure about spelling:

Code Block
 
octogan~ 

will correctly return "octagon"
 

Combined search

You can also combine various search terms together:

Code Block
 
o?tag* AND past~ AND ("blog" AND "post") 



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