Search Tips


You can search for any word or phrase in Practical Risk Managment. Here are some tips and rules on doing searches.

Basic Search Rules

Consecutive words are treated as a phrase; they must appear in the same order within a matching document.

Queries are case-insensitive, so you can type your query in uppercase or lowercase.

You can search for any word except for those in the exception list (for English, this includes a, an, and, as, and other common words), which are ignored during a search.

Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), and comma (,) are ignored during a search.

To use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query, enclose your query in quotation marks (“).

You can insert Boolean operators(AND, OR, and NOT) and the proximity operator (NEAR) to specify additional search information.

The wildcard character (*) can match words with a given prefix. The query esc* matches the terms “ESC,” “escape,” and so on.

Boolean and Proximity operators

To search for both terms on the same page:
   Here AND There
   Here & There

To search for either terms on the same page:
   Here OR There
   Here | There

To search for the first term without the second term:
   Here AND NOT There
   Here & ! There

To search for both terms in the same page, close tegether:
   Here NEAR There
   Here ~ There



Wildcards
Wildcard operators help you find pages containing words similar to a given word.

To search for words with the same prefix:
   Manage*
   Finds manage, management, etc

To search for words based on the same stem word:
   Manage*
   Finds manage, managed, managing, etc