Step 2: Narrow your search You can narrow your search four ways:

• Articles and columns only, or articles, columns, newswire stories and news releases(if available)together.
• This site only, or CanadianBusiness.com, Macleans.ca, MoneySense.ca and PROFITguide.com together.
• Date range(from the drop-down menu provided).
• Columnist(from the drop-down menu provided).

Step 3: Scan the results The search results display:

• The title of the article.
• The sentence fragment most relevant to your question.
• The date the article first appeared.
• The article's URL.

The results are listed by date of publication, starting with the most recent.

Still not finding it?

Step 4: Try searching by relevance Click the "relevance" link at the top of the results list for articles that most accurately answer your question, regardless of when they were published.

How does a "relevance" search work? The more words from your question that appear in the article, and the closer together they are to each other, the more relevant the article is.

Step 5: Try rephrasing your question Make your question more detailed, or rephrase it with synonyms.

Step 6: Try refining your search You can refine your search further by using Boolean operators between your keywords. Common Boolean operators(symbol and text)are: "+" or "AND" Use AND between search terms to return pages that contain all of the terms. Example: university AND planner.

"-" or "NOT" Use NOT to exclude pages with certain words. Example: minister NOT prime.

"OR" Use OR between search terms to return pages that contain one search term or the other. Example: president OR CEO.

"" Put quotation marks around a phrase or sentence fragment to return only pages containing the exact phrase or fragment.

Remember to always capitalize the text Boolean operators you use.

Step 7: Try the spell checker Our search engine automatically checks the spelling of the words in your query. If it finds a word that might be spelled incorrectly, it flags the word by underlining it in red and placing an upside down red triangle beside it. Click on the red triangle to display a drop-down list of alternative spellings. Select the correct spelling and hit the "resubmit" button to continue your search.