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Old 11-28-12, 10:29 PM  
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Teach me how to Search

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When I do a search and I put in a few words, I will find all kinda posts even with one word in it. Say I want to look up barre 3, i will get all kinda posts because the word Barre is in there.

How do I get posts with only what I ask for?

I was trying to find posts about this dvd and then I get a world of lists and that's frustrating.
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Old 11-28-12, 10:36 PM  
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It helps if the posts are tagged. For instance, if you want to search for Barre3 posts, first select 'Search This Forum'. Then click 'Advanced Search'. Then, instead of filling in the blanks look at the tag clouds along the bottom. There's one called Barre3. Select it and you'll get all these: http://forum.videofitness.com/tags.php?tag=barre3
Multiple pages of threads tagged with 'Barre3', much more specific info.
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oh so if people don't tag, it's harder to find. so what would a tag be for this topic? Search? and how to.. is that a tag?
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Old 11-28-12, 10:40 PM  
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Other than doing a tag search like Gina mentions above (which I would also recommend), you can't search for words of less than three letters. So, if you try your "barre 3" search, only the word "barre" will be searched for. If you don't want to use the tag search, I'd recommend searching for "barre" and "Sadie" (the first name of the Barre3 instructor) together.
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Old 11-28-12, 10:42 PM  
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oh so if people don't tag, it's harder to find. so what would a tag be for this topic? Search? and how to.. is that a tag?
I just tagged this thread with "forum tip" and "search"--both must be existing tags, as they came up automatically when I just typed in a few letters. You are right that people have to tag the threads in order for them to be found, but if you look at threads, you will see that most major ones are tagged; since anyone can tag them (not just the OP), someone usually winds up doing so.
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that would help. But also, I don't know the Barre instructors. I'm trying to learn who is who now
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Old 11-28-12, 10:44 PM  
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Still need a like button so I don't have to write a whole sentence Thank you. Didn't k now that's why I didn't fine the ones with the *3* in it.
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Old 11-29-12, 08:55 AM  
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It helps if the posts are tagged. For instance, if you want to search for Barre3 posts, first select 'Search This Forum'. Then click 'Advanced Search'. Then, instead of filling in the blanks look at the tag clouds along the bottom. There's one called Barre3. Select it and you'll get all these: http://forum.videofitness.com/tags.php?tag=barre3
Multiple pages of threads tagged with 'Barre3', much more specific info.
The way I do it is: I don't click "Search This Forum," I click "Search" that's across the top menu, where it says My VF, Support VF, etc. Then instead of putting anything in the search box, click Tag Search. It will give you 2 options: show you the tag cloud, and give you a search box to search just the tags. But of course this all looks a little different on my phone so the instructions would be a little different for phone vs. computer.
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Old 11-29-12, 10:11 AM  
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Not sure if you know this, but if you want to search for Cathe Kickboxing workouts but not all Cathe OR all Kickboxing, then put the "+" in between:

Cathe+Kickbox

The '+' means AND.
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Old 11-29-12, 11:01 AM  
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Also, when you do an advanced search you can select "search titles only" under the keyword box. This will limit your selection to (some) discussions that are focused exclusively on the instructor or DVD you are researching for.
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