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Customizing Help Center

Help Centers settings page lets you specify how to search and how to display results.

To set search options:

Click Options > Set Search Options (in the left panel) (Figure 3.6 ).

Set your choices in Set Search Options, working from

Table 3.1 .

Figure 3.5).

Unchecked: Show results without highlighting.

Suggested Topics

Checked: Sort results by relevance by comparing your search phrase with a database of keywords.

Unchecked: Sort results alphabetically.

Full-Text Search Matches

Checked: Show any document containing your search phrase.

Unchecked: Searches are confined by other criteria (such as Suggested Topics).

Search in Title Only

Checked: Limit searches to topic titles and ignore body text.

Unchecked: Search entire documents.

Match Similar Words

Checked: Search for alternative and approximate forms of words (network and networking).

Unchecked: Searches for only the exact terms entered (not case-sensitive).

Microsoft Knowledge Base

Checked: Include a search of Microsofts vast keyword-oriented database of technical articles.

Unchecked: Dont search the Knowledge Base. Uncheck if youre not connected to the internet.

All Microsoft Products

Select a single Microsoft product to search on from a giant drop-down list or search on all Microsoft products (default).

Search for:

All of the Words: Show only documents that contain all your search terms. Any of the Words: Display all documents that contain any of your search terms. The Exact Phrase: Show all documents that contain your search terms in the order in which you give them (same as enclosing the phrase in quotes). The Boolean Phrase: Use the AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR operators in search phrases. (internet NOT explorer finds topics related to the internet but not to Microsofts browser, for example.)

Search in Title Only

Checked: Ignore body text (within the Knowledge Base).

Unchecked: Search body text (within the Knowledge Base).

Tip

In Boolean searches, AND shows pages that contain both specified words; OR shows pages that contain either specified word; and AND NOT shows pages that dont contain the specified word. If you omit a Boolean operator, pages matching all specified words in any order are shown (same as AND).