For example, if you are looking for documents published about adolescent dyslexia or learning disabilities, you can type in dyslexia and then press Enter. You can search for a phrase by typing in learning disabilities and then Enter. The asterisk will retrieve an unlimited number of characters at the end of a search term. Use question marks to retrieve individual characters. Each question mark you use retrieves from characters or one character.
Truncation can be useful in retrieving plurals and other variants.
Use wildcard searching at the Find prompt to search for variable characters within a search term. Each question mark you use will retrieve zero characters or one character. Wildcard searching is particularly useful in retrieving terms with alternate spellings. You can use them to combine search terms into a more complex search statement. What It Does and and retrieves records that contain both of two search terms.