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Search by word
A combination of up to four words or phrases can by used to conduct free text searches. The option any will find records which contain any of the words, while the option all will only find records that contain all of the words. A word may be excluded from an all type search by entering an exclamation mark (!) before the word.
For example,

Typing these words...	...with this option...	...finds documents that contain
cat dog fish	all	all three of these words (cat and dog and fish)
cat dog fish	any	at least one of these words (cat or dog or fish)
cat dog !fish	all	both the first words, but not the last (cat and dog but not fish)

Advanced searching
Lotus Notes provides several further options for more advanced text searching. These are outlined in the following table, and should be entered as one string in the word input field.

Typing any of these...	Finds...
NOT not !	records that do not contain the condition or word following NOT
AND and &	records that contain both the conditions or words separated by AND
OR or |	records that contain either of the conditions or words separated by OR
ACCRUE accrue , (comma)	the same records as OR, but increases the relevance ranking of a record when the record contains more than one matching conditon or word
@	records which contain both of the words that are separated by @, as long as the words are next to each other in the records. (Do not place spaces between @ and either word.)