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The full text word search box at the top right of every page allows you to search for every occurance of a word within the entire site's content. This feature is so useful, but frequently underused by by people.

• Multiple words restrict the search to pages which contain all of your keywords. If you search on a frequently used word, eg canal you may get too many results. If you try canal restoration, you narrow it down quite a bit.
• The search input form ignores word spaces unless within phrase quotes, so searching for  act will find 'Act', 'action' and 'contact' but " act " will find only 'Act'.
• Searches are not case sensitive so searching for 'walk', 'Walk' or 'WALK' will yield exactly the same results.
• Some articles - such as those awaiting moderation - will not be searched.

• You can improve your search results by adding "operators" that refine your keywords. All of these operators can be entered directly into the basic search box. Alternately, you can use the Advanced search page.

• not : Use the "-" operator (a minus sign preceding your keyword) to exclude pages containing that term.
  Sample: walking -stick
• phrase : Enclose multiple words in double quotes to find matches for an exact phrase.
  Sample: "walking stick"
• or : Separate words with "OR" to find one or another, but not necessarily both.
  Sample: walking OR stick
• types : Use this operator together with a list of types (separated by the + symbol) to get only results of specific content types.
  Sample: types:image+article
• date of posting : The "before:" and/or "after:" operators can be used to restrict your search to content posted before/after a given date.
  Sample: after:14/05/2004
  Sample: before:14/06/2004
  
• user : The "user:" operator is used to filter results by user name.
  Sample: user:pjames
• tids : Use the "tids:" operator followed by a list of category ids to filter results by category.
  Sample: tids:3,5