Search Help

Enter the words you want to search for, making sure they are spelled correctly. The search engine will try to find pages containing all of the words you enter, listing the best matches first. By default, Press Releases are not searched.

When entering words, a Boolean "and" between words is assumed; that is, documents will be retrieved that have all the specified words. If you wish to find all the documents that have any word, then use "or" between your search words.

You can use the words 'and' , 'or' and 'not' to specify whether the documents should contain all, some or none of the keywords.

**Boolean operator examples**
Search phrase	Result
Financial and reporting	This will return documents that contain both financial and reporting
Financial or reporting	this will return documents that contain either financial or reporting or both
Financial and not* reporting*	this will return documents that contain financial but do not contain reporting

Wildcards

When specifying keywords you can use wildcards to generalize your search. The only wildcard character is the asterisk (*). The asterisk is a placeholder for any number of characters (including none). You can use the wildcard only at the end of a word.

audit* would find "auditors", "auditing", etc.

Proximity searching

You can limit your search results to only include documents where your keywords are close to each other.

The search phrase meeting near Brussels will find all documents that contain the words "meeting" and "Brussels" within 100 words of each other.