Search Tips

Tips

• Check your spelling
• Consecutive words are treated as an exact phrase – use AND between words to broaden your search (Example: illness and leave)
• If you get too many results, limit results by adding another term using AND (Example: contributions and leave and disability)
• Variations of commonly used words are automatically searched (Example: meet will return meets, meeting, meetings)
• To limit the search to one form of a word, enclose it in quotations (Example: “meeting”)
• If you still don’t find what you’re looking for, try the Site Map or our FAQs

Improve your search with operators

• Search for more than one term by separating words with OR (Example: cats or dogs)
• Search for all words by using AND between words
• Omit words by using NOT (Example: benefits not bridge)
• Improve ranking of results by separating words with commas. Documents containing more of the terms will be presented first

Try wildcards when you’re unsure of a term

• Asterisk (*) can be used to find related word variations with the same prefix (Example: retir* will find retire, retires, retired, retiring, retirement)
• Question mark (?) can be used to replace one character words, particularly useful for words you are unsure how to spell. (Example: pens??n or pen?ion will return pension)
• Ensure terms are not too abbreviated (Example: use retir* not ret*)