Searching with Wildcards

You can use wildcards and boolean operators when specifying search criteria.

Boolean operators are only available in the Advanced tab of the Find dialog and work only within a single search criterion. You cannot use a boolean operator between search criteria.

Note: Leading wildcards are supported.

Wildcards

*

Represents any number of characters within a string.

?

Represents a single character within a string.

Boolean Operators (case insensitive)

and

Searches for x AND y in any order. The search granny AND smith returns anything containing both words.

or

Searches for either x OR y. The search granny OR smith returns anything containing either word.

not

Searches for documents that do NOT contain x. The search NOT granny returns anything which does not contain granny.

" "

Searches for the phrase contained within the quotation marks.
Note: Tokenized search rules are still applied to the string within the quotation marks but special operators (AND, OR, NOT) within the quotation marks are treated as text.