Search for
Type your query in the text box under the Search for heading. Your query can be a word, phrase, question, file name, or other set of characters. Your query can be up to 255 characters long.

Search using
The Search tool matches the words in your query to the words in its index. You can decide if you want Search to match:

All words.  This option returns results that contain at least one occurrence of every word or quoted phrase you typed. Note that Search automatically filters out common words like "a," "and," "the," "these," and so forth.

Exact phrase.  This option returns only those results that contain at least one occurrence of the exact string of words you typed in the exact order you entered them. Note that Search automatically filters out common words like "a," "and," "the," "these," and so forth. Search is not case sensitive, nor is it affected by punctuation in exact phrase searches. In an Exact phrase search, you can type in the article headline. You do not need to add quotes.

Any words.  This option returns results containing at least one occurrence of at least one of the words or quoted phrases you entered. Note that Search automatically filters out common words like "a," "and," "the," "these," and so forth. This is the least specific type of search. If you are having trouble getting results for your query, use the Any words option.

Search Among Categories
In addition to choosing the type of search you want to perform, you can select a category of activebuilder.com content to target by selecting and/or clearing the check box in front of the category.

You can restrict your search with any combination of one or more check boxes. You can modify your category selections at anytime in the search process. In addition to providing a more focused result set, a restricted search will return results more quickly as the domain of content to be searched is much smaller.

All, None, Inverse
Click All to select every check box. Click None all to clear all check boxes. Click Inverse to check the previously unchecked check boxes.

Search
After you have entered your search query, selected the type of search to be done and choosen the categories to be searched, click Search to start the search process.