Hillsborough Education Foundation

Use the following advanced tips as a resources to assist you in better locating the content on this site that you are interested in.

Searches Are Not Case Sensitive
Searching for "Form" is the same as searching for "form" or "FORM".
Use AND or OR Operators
Using the logical operators AND or OR can narrow or broaden your search. For instance, searching for "annual OR report" will find all pages and documents with either the word "annual" or "report" in them while searching for "annual AND report" will find only pages and documents with both words in them.
Use Wildcards
You can use the wildcard characters "*" and "?" to broaden your search. The * operator will take the place of several characters. For example, a search for "tr*" will find "transplantation" and "transportation". The ? operator will take the place of a single characters. For example, a search for "?ar?et" will find "carpet" and "target" but not "Learjet".
The NOT Operator
You can use the logical "NOT" operator to locate pages and documents that do not contain a specific string. For example, searching for "tissue AND NOT patient" will search for all tissue content not related to patients.