The proposed site search engine has now been installed on all your sites, and you will find a ‘Search this site’ button at the bottom of your button-bar.

The Zoom search system that powers this facility has been installed with the ability to search the text of web pages, Word documents, PDF documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and WordPerfect documents.

Users can enter one or more words in the box and choose to search for any or all of them. They can put double-quotes around phrases and search for any or all of a mix of words and phrases. They can also use the ‘*’ to represent any number of characters and the ‘?’ to represent a single character, so ‘surg*’ will find surgery, surgeries, surgical etc and ‘fre?’ will find fred and free but not freckle.

The results display highlights the search keywords with a yellow background.

I hope you’ll agree that this is a worthwhile addition to the package, and look forward to receiving your comments.