Search Tools Search Tools (cont'd)
Search the Collection Using Connectors
Advanced Search Using Wildcards
Search Within These Results Using Stemming
Search Within This Document Browsing
Modify Search Printing & Downloading
SEARCH TOOLS
Search the Collection
Use this tool to quickly search the entire Broadband Advisory Services collection by keyword or phrase. This search tool will find your search terms in any part of a document.
Advanced Search
Use the Advanced Search form to search all Broadband Advisory Services document types (Trackers & Projections, Financial Analysis of the Top Broadband Players, Research Reports & Briefs, Cross-Industry Analysis, VoIP Deployment & Market Data, Broadband Daily and VoIP Monitor) simultaneously, or to confine a search to one or more document types.

Note: Advanced Search will search only those content types included in your subscription package. To expand the content included in your subscription, contact Pike & Fischer Customer Care at 1-800- 255-8131 x 248.

Word or phrase in document title or headline
Use this field to narrow your search to documents with particular words or phrases in their title or headline. You do not need to use any special punctuation or commands to search for a phrase. Simply enter the phrase the way it ordinarily appears. If a phrase contains a noise word (i.e.; of, an, it, etc.), your search will skip over that word when searching for it. Use connector, wildcard and stemming tools to fine-tune your results.

Examples: SBC and DSL
  video on demand and projections
  cable and modem revenues




Word or phrase
Use this field to narrow your search to documents including a word or phrase within any part of the document, including title, headline and body. You need not use any special punctuation or commands to search for a phrase. Simply enter the phrase the way it ordinarily appears. If a phrase contains a noise word, your search will skip over that word when searching for it. Use connector, wildcard and stemming tools to fine-tune your results.

Examples: SBC and DSL
  video on demand and projections
  cable and modem revenues

Date
This field allows you to search for documents by date or to restrict your search results to those materials published within a particular date range.
Documents to Search
Use this section of the form to select the document types you wish to search. Check "All docs" to search across the entire Broadband Advisory Services collection, or simply check one or more specific document types to search to narrow your results.
Search Within These Results
Use this feature from Results Lists or Expanded View to narrow your search results. To search within a subset of your results, check the box next to only those documents you would like to search, then, click the selected Documents radio button before running your search.
Search Within This Document
When in View Full Text mode, use this feature to home in on a specific word or phrase within the document you are viewing. Your new Search terms will be highlighted.
Modify Search
From any browse format, use this feature to change your original search parameters.
USING CONNECTORS
Using Connectors
Your search may consists of a group of words or phrases linked by connectors such as and and or that indicate the relationship between them.

Examples: apple and pear « Both words must be present
  apple or pear « Either word can be present
  apple w/5 pear « Apple must occur within 5 words of pear
  apple not w/5 pear « Apple must not occur within 5 words of pear
  apple and not pear « Only apple must be present


If you use more than one connector, you should use parentheses to indicate precisely what you want to search for. For example, apple and pear or orange juice could mean (apple and pear) or orange, or it could mean apple and (pear or orange).

Noise words, such as if and the, are ignored in searches.

Using Wildcards ( * and ?)
A search word can contain the wildcard characters * and ?. A ? in a word matches any single character, and a * matches any number of characters. The wildcard characters can be in any position in a word.

Examples: appl* « would match apple, application, etc.
  *cipl* « would match principle, participle, etc.
  appl? « would match apply and apple but not apples.
  ap*ed « would match applied, approved, etc


Note that use of the * wildcard character near the beginning of a word may slow search performance.


Using Stemming
You may use the ~ character to extend or stem your search to cover grammatical variations on a word.

Examples: test~ « would also find testing
  apply~ « would also find applying, applies, and apply

BROWSING
There are four ways to browse search results. Move from one browse mode to another by clicking on the appropriate links.
Results List
Displays your documents in a list. Basic information for each document is provided -- such as Headline, Date, Type, and Score. Information displayed will vary based upon the content searched. From this view you may Sort results by clicking on the or links. You may also view the full text of a document by clicking on View Full Text or View PDF links, or refine your search further using the Search Within These Results feature.
Expanded View
Displays your documents in an expanded list, with each of the first 5 instances of your search term surrounded by a small amount of text. Use this view to quickly determine whether your results are applicable to your research topic. From this view you may Sort results by clicking on the or links. You may also view the full text of any document by clicking on View Full Text View PDF links, or refine your search further using the Search Within These Results feature.
View Full Text
Displays your document in full text in a separate window. From here you may search within the document, view your search terms, print or save the document.
View Search Terms
Displays your document in a modified full text view - with 500 words around each highlighted search term.
PRINTING & DOWNLOADING
Printing Your Results
You may print the results of your research at any time by first clicking on the Printer Format button. This feature, which is available from all Browsing formats listed above, removes unnecessary navigation bars and graphics from your screen. You may then use your browser's print tools to print your results.
Printing PDFs
To print the full text of documents that are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF, click the printer icon located in the Adobe Acrobat toolbar while viewing the full text of the PDF.
Printing Excel Files
To learn more about printing options in Excel, and to download Microsoft's Quick Reference Card on the topic, visit the Microsoft website.
Printing Online Guides
The Site Map and Help Page on this site can be printed and used as handy desktop reference tools. To do so, first click the Printer Format button to eliminate unnecessary navigation bars and graphics.
Downloading
To save a document to your computer, click Printer Format, then File, then Save As. You may then name the file and select where to save it to your local computer.
Determining Number of Printed Pages
To determine the length of a particular document prior to emailing or printing same, click Printer Format, then File, then Print Preview. The page count in the upper right hand corner of the browser window will indicate the number of pages in the document.