Flash can search all Flash Help systems or a single Help system (such as Using Flash).

You can also search the text of a single topic: Click in the topic to give it focus and press Ctrl+F (Windows) or Command+F (Macintosh).

You can search Flash Help for a combination of words and phrases:

Single-word searches

Return a list of help pages that contain the specified word. For example, if you type timeline in the search text field, Flash returns a list of help pages that contain the word timeline or Timeline.

Multiple-word searches

Return a list of help pages that each contain all of the search terms you enter. In this case, the word and is implicit in the search. For example, if you type movie clip in the search text field, Flash returns a list of pages that contain both movie and clip—that is, clip movie, movie clip, movie...clip, and so on.

Explicit AND/OR searches

Use the words AND or OR to refine the search results. For example, if you type timeline AND keyframe in the search text field, Flash returns a list of help pages that contain both timeline and keyframe. If you type timeline OR tween in the search text field, Flash returns a list of help pages that contain timeline and pages that contain tween. The words AND and OR must be all capital letters and must be in English, even if you are searching a non-English version of Flash Help.

Exact phrase searches

Use quotation marks to return only pages that contain the specific phrase you enter. For example, if you type “motion tween” in the search text field, Flash returns a list of help pages that contain the phrase motion tween, but not pages that contain separate instances of motion and tween.

Exact phrase with explicit AND/OR searches

Use a combination of quotation marks and the words AND or OR to further refine your searches. For example, if you type “motion tween” AND “ActionScript” in the search field, Flash returns a list of pages that contain both the phrase motion tween and the word ActionScript.