brummie bird

Hi all,

I cant seem to use the search facility properly, i am trying to find past threads on good schools in perth, im coming up will over a 1000 threads, for just the word school being mentioned, my kids will be at uni by the time ive read the threads

How do i word the search to narrow it down?

I know im being a bit dim,sorry

Angie

WBB

Basic query: Separate your search terms with spaces to match all words.
Enclose the entire search string in parenthesis to search for any of the words.

Advanced query:
Words prefixed with + must be present in all posts returned.
Words prefixed with - must not be present returned posts.
Phrases enclosed in " matches only posts that contain this phrase literally.
Parentheses can be used to group words into subexpressions.

Example: +apple ("granny smith" cooking) -macintosh
Posts must contain apple along with either 'granny smith' or cooking,
but not macintosh.

ABCDiamond

Don't forget to also select just the "Australia & New Zealand" Forum, in the Search Options at the bottom, under "Search Forums".
Otherwise you will be searching all the forums, and that will increase the number of hits.

I just did a search of "school" and came up with 1,450 hits.

Then I did it just in the "Australia & New Zealand" Forum, and it found only 13 hits ?

The Bloke

Add the word "Perth" to the search and it should narrow the search down alot.