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Basic Search
  1. The Basic Search text box is located on the Top Navigation Bar. To use this, just type in one or more words that best describe the information that you're looking for and click Go.
    Use specific words to describe what you're looking for. General terms will give a larger number of results, so try to narrow your search.
     
  2. Automatic "AND"
    When you use Basic Search, by default it looks for pages/documents which have ALL the words you keyed in. For example, if you typed trade facilitation, the results will contain the words trade and facilitation.
     
  3. Using OR
    If you're equally interested in two or more alternatives, use OR in capital letters. For example, agricultural OR ATC OR ATCWG.

  4. Exact Phrase
    To search for an exact phrase, just put quotation marks around two or more words. For example, search "trade facilitation" (type the quotation marks into the text box).
     
  5. Word Variations
    Use * at the of a term if you want to search for variations of the term. For example, when you type in recommend*, pages containing any of these words recommend, recommended, recommendation, recommendations will be retrieved.
     
  6. Case Sensitivity
    If you type in terms in lower case, the search will treat it as NO case-sensitivity. However, if you submit words with any Upper case characters, the search will treat that Upper case character with case-sensitivity. For example, if you type in Recommend, the search will retrieve pages with Recommend but NOT recommend.

Advanced Search

  1. Advanced Search provides you with numerous options to make your search more accurate or specific. You can use features described for the Basic Search for the Advanced Search (note "Using OR" can only be used for "any of these words")
     
  2. Search for pages/documents with
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  • When you type in search terms in the "all of these words" text box, the search will retrieve pages/documents with ALL the search words.
  • When you type in search terms in the "the exact phrase" text box, the search will retrieve pages/documents with the exact phrase. If used together with search terms in "all of these words", the search will retrieve pages/documents with both the phrase and all the other search terms.
  • When you type in search terms in the "any of these words" text box, the search will retrieve pages/documents with ANY of those words as a match. If used together with search terms in "all of these words" and a phrase in the "the exact phrase", the search will only retrieve pages/documents with

i. the phrase AND

ii. ALL of the search terms in the "all of these words" AND

iii. ANY of the search terms in the "any of these words"

  1. Restrict search to
    This section allows you to further narrow your search by selecting a particular section to search within.
     
  2. For the period of
    This is another way to narrow or limit your search to a particular period or time-frame.
     
  3. Results per page
    This section allows you to indicate how many results you would like to be displayed in a single page. You can move through the results' pages by clicking on >>.
     
  4. Search within these results
     If your search retrieves too many results, you can narrow your search by searching within the results of your original search. For example, if you type in trade facilitation and the search retrieves 450 hits, you can further narrow the search by searching within the 450 hits by typing in additional terms like action plan.
     
  5. Discard these results and search based on new restrictions
    This feature allows you to retain your original search terms and to specify new criteria to restrict your search.

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