<p class="Paragraph">Enter your options in this area. The following examples relate to www.altavista.com in the version that was valid at the time this text was written. By the time you read this text the procedure for the Altavista example may have changed, so please alter the examples accordingly. "AltaVista(r) is a registered trademark of AltaVista Company."</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">All user-defined search engines appear in this list box.</help:help-text> Select a search engine to display its configuration in the adjacent text and option boxes.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Enter in this text field a name for a new search engine.</help:help-text> This is the name that will be displayed in the sub-menu of the <span class="T1">Search</span> icon.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Use this option area to select your nexus preferences (and, or, exact) for searching more than one word while running a search and how the results should be defined and displayed in the lower text fields.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">The links <span class="T1">And, Or</span> and <span class="T1">Exactly</span> are available.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You must always fully define all three links and after any change click the <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/><span class="T1">Change</span> button.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This text box displays the URL and the first part of the query command for a search machine. An URL can also be entered directly.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you are searching in one of the HTML based Internent search engines, e.g. in AltaVista for "<help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname>", the entire URL of this search is shown in the URL input field of your browser. This example would give the following URL:</p>
<p class="Paragraph">This is the first part of the search query. If you have entered several words separated by spaces, the sign in the <span class="T1">Separator</span> field will be used to link them.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The search terms are passed between the prefix and the suffix.<help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">The suffix provides the command sequence, sent at the end of a search.</help:help-text> This is as follows for this example:</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you type more than one word while running a search, these words will be separated by the character specified here.</help:help-text> Most search engines require the "+" character.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">How can I determine which prefixes, separators and suffixes to use when I define a new search engine?</p>
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<p class="P2">Activate the search engine and perform a search with at least two words.</p>
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<p class="P2">Copy the URL from the <span class="T1">URL</span> field in the Function bar and paste it into a blank document.</p>
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<p class="P2">Change the conditions for the search in the search engine, if it offers you the choice.</p>
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<p class="P2">Again, copy the contents of the <span class="T1">URL</span> field.</p>
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<p class="P2">Compare the URLs with the sample URLs which you can copy from the fields of this dialog. You should then be able to recognize the prefix, suffix and separator for various conditions.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">In this list box, select the case match for running a search.</help:help-text> The list box contains the following entries: <span class="T1">None</span>, <span class="T1">Upper</span> and <span class="T1">Lower</span>. The search terms entered are converted according to your selection.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Many search engines handle queries differently according to their format. If you enter a word in lower case in AltaVista, it finds all words regardless of case. If the search word contains just one capital letter, then only words will be found which exactly match. Because of this, it's preferable not to convert words automatically, i.e., by selecting <span class="T1">None</span> for the case match option.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Uses this button to include a new search engine.</help:help-text> <span class="T1">New</span> deletes all important entries of the entry mask such as "Name", "Suffix" etc. Enter the new search engine together with all of the necessary details. As soon as you accept your entries with <span class="T1">Add</span>, the new search engine will appear in the search engine list in the <span class="T1">Search in</span> section. Close the dialog with the <span class="T1">OK</span> button. <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>The new search engine is available immediately.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Click this button to add a new configuration in the existing configuration list.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Click this button to apply the modifications made to an existing configuration.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Delete this button to delete the selected search engine without receiving a security response.</help:help-text></p>
