Search Proximity

Use Proximity to add restrictions to how QuickFinder™ handles the operators you used during a search. Typically, QuickFinder finds documents that contain the search word anywhere within the document. However, if you wanted to search for apples AND oranges within the same sentence, you could use the /SENTENCE switch to indicate that the words should be located within the same sentence:

/SENTENCE (apples AND oranges)

If QuickFinder located a document containing the phrase apples, pears, tangerines, and oranges, it would return the document because these words are located within the same sentence.

Refer to the following table for a list of query switches and how to use them.

Switch	Purpose	Example
/WITHIN=number, or number	Sets the maximum number allowed between the words you are searching for.	/WITHIN=4 (apple AND orange) or /4 (apple AND orange)
/SENTENCE	Indicates that words must appear in the same sentence.	/SENTENCE (apple AND orange)
/PARAGRAPH	Indicates that words must appear in the same paragraph.	/PARAGRAPH (apple AND orange)
/DOCUMENT	Indicates that words must appear in the same document. (This is the default setting.)	/DOCUMENT (apple AND orange)