Examples of Using Wildcards and Quotation Marks in Global Search

The following scenarios provide examples of using wildcards or quotation marks in global search. Actual search results may vary, depending on factors such as how the search is set up or what data is available.

For example, if you enter account ID as the search term, you should get all records with both words. But if there are no results with both words, then you get records with only one of the words.

Note: The global search isn’t case sensitive, and it ignores characters that aren't in the indexed language.

Using Quotation Marks

Enter multiple words with quotation marks to get records that have the exact phrase. For example, if you search for "currency code", then only records with the exact phrase currency code are included in the search results.

Using Wildcards

Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to get records that replace the wildcard with zero or more characters. Use the question mark (?) to replace the wildcard with exactly one character.

• Enter the wildcard in the middle or at the end of a search term.

• To include * or ? in your search results, precede the symbol with a backslash (\) when you enter the search term. The symbol won't act as a wildcard, but as any other character in your search term.

This table shows some wildcard examples.

Search Term	Matches
add*	The word add Words beginning with add, such as address
country c*	Phrases such as country code or country club
exception \*	The phrase exception *