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Rules for searching Alexandria

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there are four rules to remember for searching in Alexandria that will help you be far more successful in your searches we will start off using simple search so make sure the drop-down menu in the top portion of the windows set to Alexandria is a begins with search which means that if you entered cat in the search field Alexandria will search for every word that begins with c a t the cat cats Catherine Cathedral cattle category sitora this leads us to the first rule if you want an exact match in the case of our example just the word cat. At the end of the world you have entered so typing cat. Will give search results that have just the words on the record if you can't spell use the browser feature let's click on the drop-down menu and switch to the advanced search I can't spell so Malaysian it's a long word so I type c i v in the first search field then click on the magnifying glass at the end of the field in the list that appears I click on my word then click on select notice that the word civilization is in the search field and all I have to do is press enter to start the search another use for brows is it for example you want to see a list of authors with the last name of brown change all words to author light brown in the field and click on the ground icon here we see all the authors with the last name of brown rule 3 this is a simple one can be done either in simple or advanced if you type more than one word in the same search field Alexandria will consider this to be a Boolean and search with an exact match on all words so if you types the war in the same circuit box Alexandria will find items that have both the word Sybil and the word war in the record the words may or may not be found next to each other but both words will be in the record and you won't get anything like elevation the last rule this is a rule for using Boolean operators so it only applies in the advanced search as you probably when you use the Boolean operator or it expands the search so if you searched for cats or dogs you will get all the items that have the word cat and all the items that have the word dogs some item records might contain words if you searched for cats and dogs Alexandria would only find those item records that have both the word cats and the word dogs in the record but what if your Boolean searches more complicated for instance if you want to find out about Greek mythology or Roman mythology real number for says if your search combines and and or Boolean operators the and goes left in our example mythology is the common word so you would enter Greek in the first search field that the bullying where two or enter Roman in the second search field then you set the second Boolean operator to and and enter mythology in the third search field if you are still confused about how to use the bull operators watch the video on the advanced search so those are the important rules to remember when searching in Alexandria

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