Searching for help topics

If you can't find what you need using the Contents, you can search for words using the Search feature.

The Search feature of this online guide returns results ranked by relevance. The ranking considers frequency (the number of times the words appear in a topic), proximity (how close the words are, when you use more than one word), and importance (if the words appear in topic headings, for example).

When you enter more than one word, all the words you enter must appear in a topic to be considered a match. If you don't get any results, try removing some words.

Common words (such as "and", "for", "that", and so on) are ignored when you search.

To search for help topics

1. Click Search in the navigation options. (If you don’t see the navigation options, click the Show navigation button to display the navigation pane.)
2. Enter one or more terms to search for.
3. Choose Search.

A relevance-ranked list of topics appears, matching the words you entered.

4. Click a topic in the list to open it in the contents pane.
5. Optionally, you can save your search to your Favorites by clicking the Add search string to favorites button (). (For more information, see Using Favorites.)

Related topics 

• Using Contents
• Using Favorites
• Online help features

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