Bob,
This is a limitation in the search engine. It's a dynosaur,
requiring Boolean phrases.
Sometimes you can get away with the search term
Access Control
and get the correct results in a smaller WebHelp package. But
it's likely you will also see topics that have both words anywhere
in the text.
The proper terms is
Access AND Control.
(AND is upper case for emphasis here. Lower case connectors
work fine.)
The search engine is fairly sophiticated, by the standards of
its day. For example, you can use a search term like these:
Example A.
access AND (control or management)
This returns topics with both access and control, or access
and management, or all three, but not just one of the words.
Example B.
access AND (control or management) NOT system
returns the same topics as in example A above, but omits any
with the word system.
I haven't pushed the envelope here.
I'm pretty sure you can use nested terms like this:
access AND (control AND (setup or system))
To yield topics with
access and control + setup
access and control + system
but not just
access + setup
access + system
control + setup
control + system
access + control
I have seen comments that you can use terms like w/3 (within
three consecutive words), so
Example C.
access w/3 control
yields words with the phrase access control or access
management control.
By the way, reading your post, I wasn't sure whether you used
"abcdef " above just for clarificatiion here, or in the search
string as well.
I'm not sure
"acess control"
with the quotes will work efficiently to search WebHelp
output.
WebHelp Pro is another matter. I've never used it.
RH's own on-line help covers this under "Advanced searching
techniques."
As I mentioned in this forum a while back, after producing my
first one or two projects, I adapted RH's topics to create a TOC
book, "How to use these files," with topics on simple and advanced
searching, using the Index, and printing. (Did you ever hear, "How
can I print everything at once?"?) I use it in every RH WebHelp
package, revising as needed depending on which features are
present.
Harvey
Rereading the RH on-line help topic, I'm reminded that you
can use
access NEAR control.
I haven't tested how many words in between are too many for
NEAR.
And you can nest Booleans five deep. (Don't ask me how, ask a
developer.)
H