The Search box is for a full text search on the body of the column text. The search engine examines all of the words in the body of the column as it tries to match search criteria (e.g., words supplied). Special "operators" are available to help:"

• + A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each row that is returned.


• - A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the rows that are returned.


• * The asterisk serves as the truncation (or wildcard) operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word to be affected. Words match if they begin with the word preceding the * operator.


• “ A phrase that is enclosed within double quote (“) characters matches only rows that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed. The full-text engine splits the phrase into words and performs a search in the FULLTEXT index for the words. Nonword characters need not be matched exactly: Phrase searching requires only that matches contain exactly the same words as the phrase and in the same order. For example, “test phrase” matches “test, phrase”.


• ( ) Parentheses group words into subexpressions. Parenthesized groups can be nested.