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The keyword expression you enter can be in one of the following forms:

Keyword ExpressionExampleMeaning
Simple keywordmusicSearch for documents containing the typed single keyword
Keyword Stem Expension$music Search for documents containing the typed keyword or any of the words with the same stem or root
Keyword Fuzzy Expension?music Search for documents containing the typed keyword or any of the words with similar spelling
Character(s) Wildcard Expensionmusic% or %music or mus%c Search for documents containing the typed keyword or its substitutions. For example, music% will match both 'music' and 'musical'
Multiple Keywords, separated by one or more operators:
space (and), '&' (and), '|' (or), '-' (minus). '(' and ')' can be used to allow combinations of all the logical and other operators
music sports (for 'music' and 'sports')
music & sports (for 'music' and 'sports')
music | sports (for 'music' or 'sports')
music - sports (for 'music' but 'sports')
music-(sports|pop)
(for 'music' but neither 'sports' nor 'pop')
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