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Select "Search Documents" to search the content in PDF and Word Documents on the Datatel Web site.

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Secure Content

To include secured items in your search, log in to the secured area of the Datatel web site. If you are not logged in to the Datatel web site, your search results will not include secured items.

Searching for Words and Phrases

Your search can include words and phrases separated by a comma. By default, words and phrases in the query are stemmed, meaning the search is broadened to include the stemmed variations of these words.

The query below will search for the phrase "press releases" and stemmed variations of the word "R18":

press releases, R18

You may want to search for the word "wetlands" and not the word along with all of its stemmed variations. To do this, you just delimit the search term in double-quotation marks. For example, the following query will search for the phrase "Colleague" and the word "R18":

"Colleague", "R18"

If searching for numbers like 83-32-9 you can get better results by leaving out the hyphens and submitting the search as 83 32 9.

Note that searches are not case-sensitive by default. This means you can use "COLLEAGUE" or "colleague" in the above examples and get the same search results.

Using Query Language

You can use operators and modifiers to apply logic to your query and pinpoint the exact information you are interested in. Popular operators are: AND, OR, and NEAR. A modifier can be used with an operator to further define your question for the search engine. Frequently-used modifiers are: MANY and NOT. By default, the words "and," "or," and "not" are interpreted as query language; all other query language elements, such as the NEAR operator, are interpreted as words unless surrounded by angle brackets. Sample query expressions using query language are below.

The AND operator selects documents that contain all of the search elements you specify. To find documents that contain both "Colleague" and at least one stemmed variation of the word "R18" you can use the following query:

"Colleague" and R18

The OR operator selects documents that show evidence of at least one of the search elements. To find documents that contain either "Colleague" or at least one stemmed variation of the word "R18" you can use the following query:

"Colleague" or R18