Searching using wildcards and universal characters

In order to retrieve different words with the same root (or other common characters) without typing each possibility as a separate keyword, you can use wildcards or universal characters to indicate where the system can substitute any character.

Use ! at the end of a word to indicate that any number of characters can be substituted there. For example, depreciat! will retrieve depreciate, depreciating, depreciation, etc.

Use * in a word to indicate that any character can appear at a certain position. For example, advis*r will retrieve advisor and adviser.

If two or more * appear together in the middle of a term, the system will substitute that many characters. However, if two or more * are placed at the end of a term, the system will substitute that many characters or fewer. For example, b**n would retrieve barn, born, burn, but not ban; to** would retrieve town and tow.

Wildcards cannot be used at the beginning of a search term. For example, you cannot use **clude.