Operators in Full-Text Searches: AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR

With the AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR operators, you can refine your search. The following table shows how to use each of these operators.

Search item	Example	Results
Both terms in the same topic	dib AND palette - or - dib & palette	Topics containing both the words dib and palette.
Either term in a topic	raster OR vector	Topics containing either the word raster or the word vector.
The first term without the second term	ole NOT dde	Topics containing the word OLE but not the word DDE.
Both terms in the same topic, close together	user NEAR kernel	Topics containing the word user within eight words of the word kernel.

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