# Searching the help system

You can search all topics in the help system, search an individual topic or topic collection, or create a search scope to search only a subset of the information. The Search Results view can display up to 500 results, sorted by relevance.

## About this task

To toggle between the Contents view and the Search Results view, click the Contents tab () or the Search Results tab ().

Note: Search strings are not case-sensitive.

## Procedure

- To search all of the topics that are included in the help system, enter a query in the Search field and click Go. You can also create a search scope to regularly search only a subset of the topics.
- To search a particular topic or a set of topics, select them in the navigation tree and then click Search Topics () on the toolbar of the Contents view. Select Search selected topic or Search selected topic and all subtopics, enter your query in the Search field, and click OK.

## Results

The Search Results view displays the topics that match your search query. Select a topic from the list of search results to view it.

Topics with the same title and same abstract are recognized as similar pages. If one of the topics in the search results has similar pages, the total count of similar pages is displayed in green fonts at the bottom of that topic. You can also click on Similar Pages tag to expand and have all the similar pages displayed.

## What to do next

1. Click the Search results tab () to see the search results view. By default, search results are not grouped.
2. Click the Show result categories () on the toolbar to group the search results.

You can use the icons on the toolbar to control the search results:

- To display or hide the summary under each search result, click Show result descriptions ().
- To enable or disable search highlighting, click Highlighting ().

- Advanced search techniques
  You can perform more advanced searches using quotes, wild cards, or boolean operators to return a smaller set of search results
- Performing a quick search
  You can search a topic or a set of topics in the navigation by using the Quick Search feature.

Parent topic: Viewing information in the help system