Search the forum

Enter text in the search fields to search for messages in the forum. You can search the message body, the message subject, the author and the date posted.

When searching the subject you can use quotes (") around two words to stipulate an exact match. You can use a + to stipulate that a word MUST be in the subject and - to stipulate that a word MUST NOT be in the subject. And you can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard (but only on the end of words - ie a trailing wildcard).

The same rules apply when searching the body of messages and the author of messages.

With the updated field you can specify a year, a month or a year and a month together. The year must be in four digit format (eg 2024) whilst the month can be a full month name or the shorter three letter form (eg august or aug). The order of the year and month is not important so the month can be first or the year can be first - both would yield the same results.

Finally, the two "match type" radio buttons allow you to stipulate whether you want all of the search criteria that you give to be matched or any of the criteria. By matching all of the criteria it serves to narrow down the search producing fewer results.