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Case-sensitive searching

A standard Find Word or Full Text search is case-insensitive. For example, the search term dickens will find Dickens and dickens.

The Advanced search page allows you to perform case-sensitive searches, using the panel to the right of the search form.

Open the Advanced search page by clicking the button at the base of the screen.
Enter your search terms (e.g. Dickens) in the boxes in the usual way.
Select your search areas from the list boxes in the usual way.
In the panel to the right of the search form, check the box labelled ‘Case-sensitive searching’.
Click the button.
The results are displayed in the results list. The search term Dickens will find only Dickens, and not dickens

Although author names are displayed in small capitals, they are treated as lower case (apart from the initial letter), so a case-sensitive search for GREENE will not match the author name GREENE. Instead, the search term Greene should be entered.

Example searches

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