Lots of time when searching you will see the word Boolean. What does that mean and what will it do? You can put and, or, andnot, rank in your search words to try to better sort the records and limit the number of hits you get. If you put in John and Bunker you will get both those words some place in the document. If you put in "John Bunker" andnot "Bunker Hill" you will get only John bunker when the two words are side by side in the document and you will keep out all the Bunker Hill references. If you put in John Bunker or Johann Bunker, you will pick up those documents that have either John Bunker or Johann Bunker in them. If you put in Columbia rank Georgia you will get documents with the word Columbia in them but all those that also contain the word Georgia will be ranked higher on the list of hits. I am definitely not very knowledgeable when it comes to searching like this but am learning. If others have ideas on how to do searches I would sure appreciate hearing about them. Bette