|
|
 |
|
All FAQs > Top FAQs
 Printer Friendly Version
|
How can I search for more than one word in LEO?
In both the Quick Word Search box on the front page of LEO Library Catalog and the Advanced Word Search boxes, you can use the following special characters to combine words:
| Use: |
To Find: |
Example: |
| " " |
a phrase |
"World Wide Web" |
| and |
all words or phrases
(narrows search)
|
San Francisco and earthquake |
| or |
either words or phrases
(broadens search) |
AIDS or acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| and not |
first word but not the second
(narrows search) |
war and not nuclear |
| ( ) |
words combined with multiple operators (and, or, and not) |
(women or female) and (leaders or rulers or prime ministers) |
| ** |
any word with the same
beginning letters |
dost**
[finds Dostoevsky, Dostoevskii] |
| near |
words near each other
(within 10 words) |
hackers near security |
| within n |
words within any number of each other |
guitar within 15 blues |
In all other searches (i.e. author, title, subject, call number, standard number), searches for multiple words will automatically look for those words as a phrase at the beginning of the field.
|
|
Created: 8/7/2005 1:22:00 PM
Modified: 8/7/2005 1:22:00 PM
Hit Count: 2639
Rating: Unrated
|
|
|
|