When searching by Title enter as much or as little of the title as you like. All items containing titles which begin with the words you have entered will be retrieved.
For example:
If you enter the word ‘cooking’ the following Titles will be retrieved:
Cooking
Cooking at a glance
Cooking at weekends
Cooking by the dozen
etc
If you wish to retrieve Titles that contain only the word ‘cooking’ enter ‘cooking’ followed by the vertical bar character ‘|’. For example, ‘cooking|’.
Note: when searching by Title you must enter the words exactly as they appear in the Title.
For example:
If you wish to search for the Title ‘Cooking at weekends’ and you enter the words ‘cooking weekends’ or ‘cooking on the weekends’ the Title ‘Cooking' at weekends’ will not be retrieved.
If you are unsure of the exact words in the Title or the order in which they appear, conduct a Keyword search instead.
Other points to consider when entering your search:
- Titles may be entered in uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case.
- If an ampersand (&) is included in the title it will be treated as if the word “and” is spelled out.
- Any apostrophes in the title will be removed.
- Most punctuation marks in the title will be treated as a space.
- Repeated spaces in the title will be treated as a single space.
To repeat a Title search you had conducted earlier without having to re-enter your search:
- select the ‘down arrow’ appearing to the right of the ‘Search History’ box that appears at to the top of the search results screen; then
- select the search you wish to repeat and the results of the search will automatically display.
What to do if your search was unsuccessful
- Check the words which display in the search box at the top of the search results screen to ensure that no “typos” or spelling mistakes were made when the search was entered. If this has occurred, simply correct the words which display in the search box and then select the ‘Search’ button which displays to it’s right.
- If your search is still unsuccessful try a Keyword search instead.
More tips on searching are available here.
