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[mjb3030]

I recently needed to find information about available 3rd party help compilers. I first tried to search the forum for 'chm compiler'. But, three letter words are not permitted in searches, so I received a huge list of messages with only the word 'compiler' in them. I then tried to search for 'help compiler', but was informed that the word 'help' is too common and would not be included in my search. I realize that is a common word in a help forum, but why can't I have the option of including it in my search? It may take me a few tries, but I think I could whittle the results down to where I can find what I'm looking for. And, why can't we search for 3 letter words? In other forums, it might make sense to exclude them, but in a programming forum? ( ASP, PHP, EXE, CHM, VBC, GDI, DLL, etc. )

 

Having said that, I will say this: I love this forum. I have learned so much from all the extremely knowledgeable people here. After I start Visual Studio each day, the very next thing I do is open my browser and come here. I use this as a programming tool as much as I use MSDN. So, I do a lot of searches here. That is why I mention the above issue.

[mjb3030]

OK... found an answer about the 3 letter word thing here http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?t=82560 ... is that the same reason we can't search for 'help'?