Help System: Keyword and Wildcard Searching Note:This article is related to searching the Online Help System - not LexisNexis ® TotalPatent™. For information on searching LexisNexis ® TotalPatent™, see Finding Variations of a Word. Example Query Description research Keyword search for documents containing the wordresearch. Note:The search feature does not support stemming. A search for the word alertwill only return the whole word and not partial matches such as alertsor alerting. To obtain results such as these you must use a wildcard, as shown below. research* Wildcard search for documents containing words that begin with the lettersresearch. For example: researched researcher researches researching te?t Single character wildcard search for documents containing words that match the query, but with a single character replaced. For example: tent test text smartlinks~ Fuzzy search for documents that contain words similar to smartlinks (e.g.,SmartLinx). Reference Material Help System: Document Metadata Searching Help System: Keyword and Wildcard Searching Help System: Phrase and Connector Searching All About... Searching the Online Help System