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Inputting Alphabetic
Characters
Use the keyboard to input alphabetic characters.
Example: To input the word
“internet”
Press the keyboard keys to input
the term.
In this example, press: .
Alphabetic Character Input Rules
Note that all alphabetic characters are input in lower case, regardless
of their normal capitalization.
Input hyphenated terms as single words, without a hyphen. To look up
“heaven-sent”, for example, input “heavensent”.
If an ampersand is part of the word or phrase you are inputting for an
English Headword Search, replace the ampersand with the word “and”.
To input “A & E”, for example, input “aande”.
When inputting multiple words (Phrase Search, Example Search, etc.),
separate them with a space (entered using
).
To input the accented characters marked on the character keys (Ä, Ö,
Ü, etc.), press
and then the applicable letter key. For accented
characters that are not included on the character keys, input the
character without the accent.
Example: “à”
➝
“a”
For the French “ç”, input “c”, and for “œ”, input “oe”.
You can input up to 30 characters. With Phrase Search and Example
Search, a blank space is counted as a character.
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