Operators can help you refine your search results if there are too many, or get to a specific document quickly.
For example, you can limit your search results to documents that contain a specific phrase, or exclude documents containing a specific word from your search results.
The table below lists all the logical search operators that are allowed:
Logical operator | Example | Description |
| | contract | agreement | Returns documents containing at least one of the words contract, agreement. |
! | agreement !purchase | Returns documents that contain contract but do not contain purchase. |
"" | "purchase agreement" | Returns documents that contain the exact phrase purchase agreement. |
* | appendi* | Returns documents that contain any ending of the search term (appendix, appendices...)*. |
() | ("purchase agreement") | ("agreement of purchase") | Returns documents that contain at least one of the phrases. Brackets are used as grouping operator. |
* at least 3 letters must precede the exclamation mark or asterisk
Examples of more complex searches:
subscription | issue | shares - returns all documents with at least one of the selected words;
contract purchase | work | transfer - returns all documents containing contract and at least one of the words purchase, work, transfer;
contract purchase | work | transfer* – similar to the previous one, but also returns e.g. documents containing e.g. transferable contract
(agreement | contract) (transaction | transfer) – returns all documents that match the combination of a word in the first bracket with a word in the second bracket (transaction agreement, transfer agreement, transaction contract, transfer contract);
(cat !mouse) | (cat !bear) - returns all documents where there is cat but no mouse, or where there is cat but no bear (i.e. there cannot be mouse and bear together);
!contract - beware, this purely negative definition (all documents that do not contain the word contract) cannot be searched independently.