Help System: Keyword and Wildcard Searching

Note:

This article is related to searching the Online Help System - not LexisNexis ® TotalPatent™. For information on searching LexisNexis ® TotalPatent™, see Finding Variations of a Word.

Example Query Description
research Keyword search for documents containing the wordresearch.
Note:

The search feature does not support stemming. A search for the word alertwill only return the whole word and not partial matches such as alertsor alerting. To obtain results such as these you must use a wildcard, as shown below.

research* Wildcard search for documents containing words that begin with the lettersresearch. For example:
  • researched
  • researcher
  • researches
  • researching
te?t Single character wildcard search for documents containing words that match the query, but with a single character replaced. For example:
  • tent
  • test
  • text
smartlinks~ Fuzzy search for documents that contain words similar to smartlinks (e.g.,SmartLinx).

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