Searching the Mk1 Golf Owners Forum
There are two ways to search on this site:(1) Use the Google Search feature on the left of the Home or Forum pages.
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(2) Use the inbuilt search capability.
Go to the forums area and view your profile bar at the top:
Click to go to the forums
Lets use the example search text of Wales Volksfest 2012
(1) Copy Wales Volksfest 2012 into the search box and click search.
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- The results returned will be any posts that have any of the three words in them - this is likely to be a large results set.
(2) Copy "Wales Volksfest 2012" into the search box and click search.
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- With the addition of double quotes, only posts with the complete phrase will be returned - this is likely to be a much smaller results set.
(3) Copy +Wales +Volksfest +2012 into the search box and click search.
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- With the addition of the plus symbol, only posts that contain every word that is marked with a + will be returned - this is the most likely search to get the posts that you want.
(4) Want to go a little more advanced and search further back in time of a specific forum ?
Click the (More) button and set the search up as in the image below, select the time period that you want to search back to, N/A will search from when the Owners Club started. Finally select the forum that you want to search in, the top level Forum home will search all forums.
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