Search screen

The

Search screen

has a range of search tools you can use to make your searches more precise and effective.

Select Search
from the navigation toolbar to get to the search screen.

When you use the Practice Area drop-down list to choose a practice area, the screen will show sources and search tools specific to that area. Practice areas include: Federal, State & Local, Estate Planning, Pension & Benefits, International Tax, International Trade, Payroll, and Accounting, Audit & Corporate Finance.
To make a search, enter your keywords, choose the sources to search, and then select Search.
- Choose Terms & Connectors if you want to search with exact keyword terms.
- Choose Intuitive Search if you want to search with keyword terms to identify sentence, connectors, or citations that are related.
- Choose Thesaurus/Query Tool to use Restrictions to require or exclude terms, Tools to add terms and connectors to make a more precise search, Thesaurus to search for alternative terms, and Spelling to search for alternative spellings.
Use the tools in the navigation bar, such as Find by Citation, to search using methods other than keywords.