Site Search Help

You can search the WCAT website using the Basic Search or the Advanced Search. Here is some help for each type of site search.

Note: Neither the Basic Site Search nor the Advanced Site Search will search WCAT decisions. To search WCAT decisions

General Tips

Site search only searches “pdf” documents on the website. There are also “html” documents on the website, including the webpages themselves. Site search will not search these documents. To search for webpages please use the site map.
The search is not case sensitive. You can use either upper or lower case without affecting the search results.
Show/Sort by: You may choose the way the results are shown. You can sort your results by title or score, by clicking on the corresponding heading on the results page.
Score: Documents with a high score have the highest number of the terms you are searching; documents with a low score have the lowest number of terms you are searching. For example a document with a score of 10 may have your search terms five times in the document, whereas a document with a score of one may have your search terms only once. This function allows you to determine which documents have the highest count for the terms you are searching.
To search for a word with any ending use the (*) wildcard sign which allows you to, for example, search for post* and find documents containing posts, post-injury, postponed, postponement, postpones.

Basic Site Search

Use	To search for...	Example	Finds...
Site Search	documents with any of the words you list.	left elbow	results that contain the word “left” or the word "elbow".

Advanced Site Search

Use	To search for...	Example	Finds...
All these words	a specific word or more than one word.	wrist elbow	results with both of these words.
Exact Phrase	an exact set of words. You will only get results if the words in the phrase you typed in are in the exact same order within the document. You do not need to use quotation marks around the words.	mental stress	results with the exact phrase "mental stress".
One or more words	any words you have listed. You will get results if at least one of the words you typed is in the document.	wrist elbow	results with any of these words.
None of these words	words, but exclude other words from the search. Note you must enter something in either “All these words” or “Exact phrase” or “One or more words” for “None of these words” to work.	wrist	results that do not include wrist.