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Help
Using the Learning County website
This section tells you how to find the information you are looking
for and get the most out of the Learning County website.
Overview of the site
The sitemap provides a graphical overview of the Learning County website.
Each main page of the website is represented and linked to the actual page.Use the sitemap to access any section of the Learning County website.
Home, search, help and feedback
There are four icons constantly in
view to help you navigate through the site:
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The Homepage
button returns you to the home page. From the home page you
can navigate to any area of the site using the buttons that
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The Search
button takes you to the search page. Here you can search for
a word to see if it appears in
any area of the website. Search
results display as a list of hypertext links. Follow the links
to go to the page containing the item you are searching for.
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The Help
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Using search and query language
You can search
the Learning County website for specific words or combinations of
words. The text search engine
will display a weighted list of matching documents with best matches
shown first. The files are listed by file title. Each file title
is a link to a matching document.
Advanced search
techniques
The text search engine allows queries
to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords
AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:
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text entered: |
Finds: |
| information retrieval |
documents containing 'information'
or 'retrieval' |
| information or
retrieval |
documents containing 'information'
or 'retrieval' |
| information and
retrieval |
documents containing both 'information'
and 'retrieval' |
| information not
retrieval |
documents containing 'information'
but not 'retrieval' |
| (information not
retrieval) and UK |
documents containing 'UK', plus
'information' but not 'retrieval' |
- web*
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finds documents containing words
starting with 'web'
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