Mike,
That was precisely the kind of "How to use Help" that should be somewhere in
the Legacy help files or at least a link to the write-up that you cited.
Thanks for that info. If, as Sherry reported, the Legacy help system is now
based on the Windows protocol, then all of these methods should function when
searching for things in the help files.
Ron Taylor
--- On Sat, 1/7/12, Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com> wrote:
> From: Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com>
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help files
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Date: Saturday, January 7, 2012, 3:28 PM
> On 2012/01/07 23:16, Sherry/Support
> wrote:
>
> > I can't imagine that it needs much explanation - the
> Index tab helps
> > you search indexed topics, the Search tab is an
> everyword search and
> > the Favorites tab is where you bookmark Help topics
> you use a lot.
>
> Ahem! I have a copy of the Microsoft Help for the Help
> Viewer (what Legacy Help
> is displayed in) and the section on the Advanced Full-Text
> Search is, to say the
> least, very comprehensive. This is just what it has to say
> on basic searching.
>
> Searching for help topics
>
> A basic search consists of the word or phrase you want to
> find. You can use
> wildcard expressions, nested expressions, boolean
> operators, similar word
> matches, a previous results list, or topic titles to
> further define your search.
>
> The basic rules for formulating queries are as follows:
>
> Searches are not case-sensitive, so you can type your
> search in uppercase or
> lowercase characters.
> You may search for any combination of letters (a-z) and
> numbers (0-9).
> Punctuation marks such as the period, colon, semicolon,
> comma, and hyphen are
> ignored during a search.
> Group the elements of your search using double quotes or
> parentheses to set
> apart each element. You cannot search for quotation marks.
> Note
> If you are searching for a file name with an extension, you
> should group the
> entire string in double quotes, ("filename.ext").
> Otherwise, the period will
> break the file name into two separate terms. The default
> operation between terms
> is AND, so you will create the logical equivalent to
> "filename AND ext."
>
> And so it goes :-)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mike Fry
> Johannesburg
>
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