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About Case		Searches are not case sensitive UNLESS the characters in your search word are of mixed case. In other words, stone or STONE finds stone, Stone, STONE; but a search for Stone finds only Stone, not stone or STONE.

About Phrases		Bible story finds documents containing the phrase "Bible story"

""		By default, words and phrases in the query are stemmed, meaning the search is broadened to include the stemmed variations of these words. arranging finds documents containing any one of the following: arrange, arranged, arranging. In other words, "arranging" may not be found in one of the documents returned even though it is your search criteria. "arranging" [in quotes] finds documents containing only "arranging" and not stemmed variations.

OR		Bible OR story finds documents containing either "Bible" or "story". The OR operator is assumed if you separate words or phrases by commas. In other words, "Bible, story" will accomplish the same as "Bible OR story".

AND		Bible AND theology finds documents containing both "Bible" and "theology"

NOT		Bible NOT theology finds documents containing "Bible" but not "theology" To find documents containing stemmed variations of the words "music" and "worship" in close proximity to each other, but not stemmed variations of the word "choir", you enter this query: server<NEAR>configuration<AND> <NOT>firewall

()		Determines how ANDs and ORs are treated. Words within parentheses are considered a unit, and are considered first. (Spirit NOT water) AND baptism finds documents containing "baptism", plus "Spirit" but not "water"

*		bapt* finds documents containing words starting with "bapt" (baptism, baptizes, baptized, etc.)

<NEAR>		Finds documents containing specified search terms within close proximity to each other. The closer the search terms, the higher the score. worship AND music worship<NEAR>music Both of these queries will return the same documents list. However, the <NEAR> search results will score documents higher that have the words closest together.

<SENTENCE>		pastor<sentence>resign find documents containing stemmed variations of the words "pastor" and "resign" in the same sentence.

<PARAGRAPH>		Operates in the same way as <sentence>.

<IN>title		(trend, ministry)<IN>title find documents whose titles have stemmed variations of the words "trend" or "ministry" in them. (trend AND ministry)<IN>title find documents whose titles have stemmed variations of the words "trend" and "ministry" in them.