Full-text Search within the M1plus Help

A simple search consists of the word or expression that you want to find.
You can use Boolean, wildcard, and nested expressions in order to subtilize your search.

Perform a search within the help:

1: Click the Search tab of the navigation pane.

2: Enter the word or expression that you want to find.

3: Click on List topics.
The search returns the first 500 matches.

4: Click on Title, Position or Rank in order to sort the topic list.

5: Select the desired topic and then click on Display.

Search syntax
Basic rules for search terms:

The search is not case sensitive.
You can enter your search term in lower cases or capitals.
You can search every combination of characters (a-z) and numbers (0-9).
Punctuations as full stop (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), comma (,) and hyphenation (-) will be ignored by the search.
You can not search for single characters (a, b, c, etc)
You can not search for the following reserved terms:
an, and, as, at, be, but, by, do, for, from, have, he, in, it, not, of, on, or, she, that, the, there, they, this, to, we, which, with, you.
Here comes a hint which will not be displayed correctly with the German words:
ein, und, als, an, sein, aber, von, tun, für, von, haben, er, es, nicht, von, auf, oder, sie, das, die, dort, sie, dies, zu, wir, welche, mit, Sie.
You can not search for quotation marks ":

1: File names with its extention you will find by grouping the hole string in quotation marks ("filename.ext"). Otherwise the search will interpret the full stop as an OR operator.

2: Group the elements of your search by "quotation marks" or (parentheses).

Subtilize or extend the search:

You can subtilize a simple search by Boolean, wildcard, and nested expressions.

You can search for numerical sequences, words and phrases and use wildcards.

Search for	Example	Result
A single word	Operating instructions	Topics which contain the word operating instructions. You will find its grammatical variations as Operating instructions as well.
Expression	"224 488" -or- '224 488'	Topics which contain the Ident number 224 488.
Expression	new operator -or- new operator	Without the quotation marks the query equals an AND operator, which find topics having the single terms instead of the complete expression. Ergo the number 224 or 488
Wildcards * ?	wirin	Topics which contains the terms wiring diagram, wirings, electrical wiring, wiriness, etc. ergo singular and plural as well. You can not have the asterix as single character in the search term.
	ST ?68	Topics which contain the expressions ST 168, ST 268 and ST 468. You can not have the question mark as single character in the search term.
	*68	Topics which contain the expressions 168, 268, 468, ST 168, ST 268 etc.

Boolean Operators: AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR

Search for	Example	Result
Both expressions in the same topic	CMS AND CMT -or- CMS & CMT	Topics which contain the term CMS and CMT.
One of the expressions in the same topic	468 OR OKC -or- 468 \| OKC	Topics which contain either 468 or OKC.
The first expression without the second expression	468 NOT OKC -or- 468 ! OKC	Topics which contain 468 but do not contain OKC.
Both conditions closely-neighboured in the same topic	468 NEAR OKC	Topics which contain 468 and OKC within eight words.

Nested expressions enables you to generate sophisticated search terms.
The basic rules for the search with nested expressions:

Expressions in parentheses will be analyzed before the rest of the query.

If a query does not contain nested expressions it will be analyzed from the left to the right.
Example:
Control NOT active OR dde will find topics which contain the expression control without the expression active or topics which contain the expression control but not the expression dde.
Control NOT (active OR dde) will find topics which contain the expression control without the expression active or dde.

Expressions can not be nested over more than five levels.