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ruhar

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The format of the forum search here has been driving me crazy since day one. I have used forums for years so I know what I'm doing. If I have a question about something I always search the forum but for LWD forum this doesn't seem to be easily done. If I want to do a search of "search by phrase" in LWD forum the search shows every article that has "search" or "by" or "phrase" even if I put the whole phrase in quotes. Other forums I have used I can select the option to use the whole phrase as typed but this one does not give me that option. I prefer to narrow my search by using a phrase to see if I can find an answer before posting to the forum. Will someone please explain to me how to do a search of a phrase instead of each word of a phrase before I punch out monitor? :mad:

Thank you. :D
 
The forum uses vBulletin software. Here is a post at vBulletin that describes how to use search effectively:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=253432

It seems that searching by phrase is accomplished by enclosing the phrase in double-quotes. I tried it with "search by phrase" and it showed only this single thread. It is true that when I viewed the thread, it highlighted the individual words, also.
 
davidp said:
It seems that searching by phrase is accomplished by enclosing the phrase in double-quotes. I tried it with "search by phrase" and it showed only this single thread. It is true that when I viewed the thread, it highlighted the individual words, also.
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Using double quotes to enclose a search phrase used to be the standard, until a particular search browser decided that quotes were more useful for something else.
 
Is there anyway to search only in Realm Works forum so I don't have to wade through the Hero Lab results?
 
Here: the Advanced Search lets you pick which subforum (optionally including its children) to search.

Search Engines: try adding "Realm Works Forums" along with your query, so you have:
Code: 
"your query here" "Realm Works Forums" site:forums.wolflair.com
 
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