Search the Acuity Site

Search Tips

Basic Searching:

Simply enter a word or phrase in the box above and press the "Search!" button. All pages within the site containing these words will be returned, indexing by relevance. For ease of use, searches are not case-sensitive.
If you would prefer to be more specific, the "advanced" functions can be used (see below).

Wildcard "*" Searching:

Wildcard searches can be used to search for parts of words. For example, you may want to find words that begin with "cat" (cat*), words that end with "ing" (*ing) or perhaps words containing "sept" (*sept*).
Examples:
Cat* will match cat, catalytic, catch etc..
*ing will match sing, flying, marching etc..
*sept* will match September, aseptic, antiseptic etc..

Multiple Words and Phrases:

To search for phrases which may exist together (eg. Index Server) you must surround the query with speech marks ("index server").
Examples:
Canadian Balanced will return documents containing the words Canadian and Balanced regardless of position or order on the page.
"Canadian Balanced" will return documents containing the phrase Canadian Balanced where these two words are together and Balanced follows Canadian.

The "OR" operator:

The default "Boolean" operator for searches is "AND". Where a search is submitted containing multiple words or phrases this will return documents that contain all the words or phrases. If you would prefer to use the "OR" operator, simply use "OR" between your keywords or phrases.
Examples:
Canadian Balanced will return documents containing Canadian and Balanced.
Canadian OR Balanced will return documents containing either Canadian or Balanced.