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"
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"chalk and cheese" |
Or Search
To search for content that contains one of the terms, "chalk" OR "cheese"
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chalk OR cheese |
And Search
To search for content that contains both the terms "chalk" AND "cheese"
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chalk AND cheese |
Not search
To search for content that contains "chalk" but NOT "cheese"
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chalk NOT cheese |
Excluded Term search
Similar to the NOT search, to search for content that contains "chalk" and "butter" but NOT "cheese"
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chalk butter -cheese |
Grouping Search
To search for content that MUST contain "chalk" but CAN contain either "cheese" or "butter" use the search:
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(cheese OR butter) AND chalk |
Title Search
To search for content with "chalk" in its title, where title is the field keyword.
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title:chalk |
Wild card searches
Single character
To search for "butter" or "batter" you can use the search:
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b?tter |
To search for "chicken" or "chickpea" you can use the search:
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chick* |
Wildcards can be used anywhere within a word, except at the very beginning.
For example:
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*chick |
is an invalid search term.
Multiple characters
To search for "chick" or "chickpea":
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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":
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c*c? |
Proximity searches
This search ensure that the two words specified must be within a certain number of words of each other to be included.
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"octagon post"~1 |
will return "Octagon blog post".
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"octagon post"~0 |
is an invalid search term.
Range search
Searches for names that fall alphabetically within the specifed range.
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[adam to ben] |
Note: You can't use the AND keyword inside this statement.
Fuzzy search
This search looks for words spelled similarly.
To search for octagon, if unsure about spelling:
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octogan~ |
will correctly return "octagon"
Combined search
You can also combine various search terms together:
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o?tag* AND past~ AND ("blog" AND "post")
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