Using full-text search

When you enter a word or phrase in the online Help's Search tab, RoboHELP searches the contents of your topics to find all occurences of that word or phrase. It's a good way to find a topic title (if you know it) or every instance of a concept or feature in the system.

To find information with a full-text search:

  1. Click the Search tab, and type the word or phrase you want to find.

 

To:

Do This:

Search only topic titles

Select Search titles only.

Find words similar to your search term

Select Match similar words.

Narrow your search

Select Search previous results.

Highlight all instances of search terms that are found in topic files

Click Options and select Search Highlight On.

  1. Click to add Boolean operators to your search. (Find out more about Boolean operators in Advanced searching techniques.)

  2. Click List Topics, select the topic you want, and then click Display.

  3. To sort the topic list, click the Title, Location, or Rank column heading.