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The site has been broken down into the major areas of interest in Department of Labor activities. These areas are listed in the light blue box along the left side of the screen. You may select one of these areas by moving your mouse until the cursor is positioned over the area name and clicking once. Many of these major areas are further subdivided into additional sections. The sub-sections for an area will appear in a gray box just to the right of the main navigation box after the main area has been clicked on.

For an overview of the entire site, the Site Map section contains an index of links to all the pages on the site grouped by major section.

Many forms and documents on the web site are in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) format for easier viewing and printing. Viewing such documents requires installation of the free Acrobat Reader on your computer. Links to PDF documents are denoted by the Adobe Acrobat icon .

The New Hampshire Department of Laber web site also includes links to other web sites. Such links are denoted by an open door symbol .

Searching the Site

It's easy to search the New Hampshire Department of Labor. Just "Ask Dolli" for documents on a particular subject by typing in a few words or phrases. Try to use discriminating terms that are likely to be found only in the documents you seek. The more words you give, the better results you'll get. Here are some examples:

Search by typing words and phrases.

Pentium computer with 8x CD-ROM for sale

Dolli will find documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible, ranked so that the documents most relevant to your query are presented first. Don't worry about missing a document because it doesn't have one of the words in your search -- Dolli returns relevant results even if they don't contain all query terms.

Identify phrases with quotation marks, separate with commas.

Pentium computer with "8x CD-ROM", "for sale"

A phrase is entered using double quotation marks, and only matches those words which appear adjacent to each other. Separate multiple phrases or proper names with a comma.

Use UPPER case to indicate exact match.

Steve Jobs, NeXT

Search terms in lowercase will match words in any case, otherwise, an exact case match is used. For example, next will find matches for Next, next, and NeXT, whereas a query for NeXT will only match NeXT.

Use a require or reject operator (+,-).

Barney, +Smith -dinosaur

Barney alone is ambiguous. It it looking for Smith Barney investment information or cartoon dinosaur pages? You can use the reject operator (the "minus" sign) to eliminate the cartoon dinosaur interpretation. Or, you can require that the word "Smith" be in the document.