Searching ProjectConnections is designed to be easy and effective. For the simplest search, just type in your terms and click the Search button. By default, this will look for all of the terms you enter throughout the entire site.

Narrowing the pages searched: By selecting Search Templates or Search Site Help from the drop-down box, you can narrow your search to specific sections of the site. For example, if you're looking for a model meeting agenda, you could enter the words meeting agenda and select Search Templates from the list. This would return model agendas, templates, and guidelines, but would exclude papers, articles, or case studies discussing agendas. Here's what's included in the sections searched:

• Templates: All templates, checklists, and guidelines in our resource library -- essentially, all resources listed on our Templates & Checklists Index. Papers, presentations, case studies, interviews, articles, FastTracks, and similar resources are not included.
• Site Help: Only the help pages designed to orient users to the site and explain account management.
• Search the site: Everything on ProjectConnections, including the two sections described above.

Broadening or narrowing search results using Any/All/Exact: By default, search will find ALL your search terms, meaning that every term will occur at least once on a page returned. To broaden your search, select ANY to locate pages that contain at least one (but not necessarily all) of your terms. To narrow your search, select EXACT to locate pages containing your terms as a complete phrase. For example, when searching on the terms scheduling estimates:

If you prefer, you may also use Boolean search logic.

Choosing the right search terms: Try to use unique words that are likely to be used in describing or discussing the content you're searching for. Capitalization does not matter. For example, project template will be a very "noisy" search on our site, and searching on wbs or requirements will produce more targeted results. Stemming is used to find multiple word forms, e.g. plan will also find plans and planning. Our search also compensates for British/American spelling differences (for instance, -ised/-ized). However, searching on an exact phrase will disable these two options.

"We couldn't find a match;" Not-found results: You may find that some searches provide few or no results. Try these suggestions to get better results:

• Try searching on a related term. for instance, instead of searching on post-mortem, try lessons learned.
• Broaden your search by selecting ALL instead of EXACT, or ANY instead of ALL.
• Add additional search terms to an ANY search. For example, searching on outsourcing and vendor as an ANY search will produce more results than searching on outsourcing alone.
• Email or call us for suggestions. It's possible we don't have anything on your terms on the site yet, but we may have information in our files, or we may know of other sources online. And sometimes, it's just that we've "filed it" online under a different term than you might expect. Don't hesitate to email customer service for help. We'd be happy to point you to whatever we can find.

If you prefer, you can use Boolean searches. Use + in front of each word or a quoted phrase that you require, and - in front of each word or phrase you want to exclude. Use AND, OR, NOT, (, and ) to form a Boolean expression. AND requires, OR allows, NOT excludes. Use double quotes to protect the words "and", "or", or "not" in a phrase. Examples:

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