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Subject:Re: Crispy around the edges From:Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:25:39 -0700 (PDT)
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John Posada wrote:
Shouldn't searching for "admin" result in hits on all of those other terms?
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At first I was wondering why your search was not returning adminstrator, administration, and so forth. So I wen to the RoboHelp help system and did a search on "Search" and found the answer. You can use wildcared expressions in searches in HTML Help. So a search for
admin*
would return:
admin, adminstrator, adminstration
A search for
90?10
would return:
90110, 90210, 90310
Found that in the "Advanced searching techniques" topic.
Now, the question is, how to go about bringing up this little gem in your help, because it's not really obvious. It wasn't to me at least. Didn't even know you could do that. Unless I just totally missed this. Hmmmmmmm.
Anyway, I've learned something new, so I'm happy. :-)
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