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TriciaS



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:42 pm    Post subject: how to search posts ??????? Reply with quote

I am having real problems and whatever I search for I always just get every post ever written with none covering the subject I need, how do I use th search and actually get to a post with similar problems and answers
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Penman



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
Bottom left of the search page:

Quote:
Display results as: O Posts O Topics


Put a black dot in the Posts circle, Topics is the default.
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TriciaS



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Penman wrote:
Hi
Bottom left of the search page:

Quote:
Display results as: O Posts O Topics


Put a black dot in the Posts circle, Topics is the default.


I did that still no luck
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you type in "hillman dynamo", you get 840 results.

If you type in "hillman AND dynamo", you get 3 results, as the search facility is looking for those two words together, as opposed to every post with Hillman and every post with dynamo.

Hope that makes sense.

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Penman



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
The renowned Boolean Search protocol; as well as AND you can also use OR and NOT as separators.
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