Arctera™ Insight Personal Archive Help

Phrase search

Use double quotation marks around one or more words to search for the exact phrase.

"cloud computing" finds archived messages with this exact phrase.

AND operator search

Use the AND operator between two search terms to find items that contain both search terms.

cloud AND computing finds archived messages with both of the search terms cloud and computing.

See Boolean operator searches.

OR operator search

Use the OR operator between two search terms to find items that contain at least one of the search terms.

cloud OR computing finds archived messages with the search term cloud, or the search term computing, or both terms.

See Boolean operator searches.

NOT operator search

Use the NOT operator between search terms to exclude specific search terms.

cloud NOT computing finds archived messages with the search term cloud but not the search term computing.

See Boolean operator searches.

Single character wildcard search

Use a question mark at the end of a search term to represent a single unspecified character.

appl? finds archived messages with search terms such as apple or apply.

See Wildcard searches.

Multiple character wildcard search

Use an asterisk at the end of a search term to represent one or more unspecified characters.

comp* finds archived messages with search terms such as computing, computer, or company.

See Wildcard searches.

Proximity search

Place quotation marks around two search terms, followed by a tilde and a numerical value to indicate the maximum word count between them.

"cloud computing"~5 finds archived messages with the search terms cloud and computing within five words of each other.

See Proximity searches.