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Searching ANY-maze help

Introduction

You will often find the quickest way to get the answer to a question is to search the ANY-maze help. You can do this by simply clicking the Search topics button in the Help page's ribbon bar to display the search options - see figure 1.

Figure 1. The 'Search' options on the Help page.

Simple searches

You can search ANY-maze help by entering any number of words on the subject that you need help on. You can use a single word, for example 'Camera', and all topics that contain that word will be listed. However, this might turn up rather a lot of topics, so you might want to try more than one word - like 'USB camera'. This will help narrow down your search, as ANY-maze first tries to find topics that contain all your search terms. ANY-maze will treat similar words in the same way, so searching for the word 'camera' or 'cameras' will find the same topics. Similarly, for example, 'Configuring an ANY-maze interface device' will return the same topics as 'How to configure an anymaze device', because ANY-maze knows that 'configure' and 'configuring' mean the same thing, and 'ANY-maze' and 'anymaze' are equivalent. Searches are case-insensitive as well, so it doesn't matter if you use capital letters or not.

Topics that contain your search terms in their title, or which ANY-maze thinks are particularly relevant to the word(s) you've searched for, will be listed first. After this, ANY-maze will list topics that contain all the words somewhere in the topic's text. Priority will be given to topics where the words are closer together in the text. Further topics will be listed that contain any of the words you've searched for; again, the closer the words are in the topic, the higher the topic will be in the list of search results.

A maximum of 25 topics will be listed. Occasionally, you may find that the answer to your question isn't the first topic listed, although it will usually be in the top three or four - reading the

Asking ANY-maze a question

Although you can search the help by asking it questions, such as 'Can I use a USB camera with ANY-maze?', ANY-maze will ignore words which aren't particularly relevant to the help topics themselves. In the example, the words 'Can', 'I', 'a' and 'with' will actually be ignored (as will the word 'ANY-maze'), and ANY-maze will simply search on the terms 'USB' and 'Camera'. So although you can enter an English-language question to search on, ANY-maze will pick out the important words and search for those. So 'Can I use a USB camera with ANY-maze' will be treated in the same way as 'Using USB cameras with ANY-maze' or 'USB camera'.

Topic abstracts

To help you quickly identify the topic which answers your question, ANY-maze will display short abstracts, which briefly describe the topics' contents. This can make it much easier to find the help topic you're looking for:

Figure 2. Topic abstracts give a brief summary of each page, which can make it much easier to find what you're looking for in the list of pages that ANY-maze has found.

Advanced search features

There are some more advanced features of searching the help index in ANY-maze, which you might be aware of if you've used them in other search engines - Google, for example. They are listed here:

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