To Create a Full-Text Search Stop List
Microsoft Corporation
Updated June 10, 1999
- Open a text editor, such as Microsoft Notepad, and create a text file.
- Type in any words or numbers you want to exclude from a search, one word per line.
- Save the file, and then rename it with .stp as the file name extension.
- Add the .stp file to the same directory as your project (.hhp) file.
- Add the stop list to your project file.
Sample stop list
Copy any words from the following sample that you want to include in your stop list:
a
about
after
against
all
also
among
an
and
are
as
at
be
became
because
been
between
but
by
can
come
do
during
each
early
for
form
found
from
had
has
have
he
her
his
however
in
include
into
is
it
its
late
later
me
med
made
many
may
more
most
near
no
non
not
of
on
only
or
other
over
several
she
some
such
than
that
the
their
then
there
these
they
this
through
to
under
until
use
was
we
were
when
where
which
who
with
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Notes
- A stop list decreases the size of the full-text search index, which results in a smaller compiled help (.chm) file because fewer words are indexed. This is especially important if you have a large documentation set. All words in the stop list are omitted from the search. These are usually commonly occurring words, such as "the," "and," or "1" that a user is unlikely to search for.
- Numbers can also be used in a stop list.
- For the 1.2 release of HTML Help, the size of this file is limited to 512 bytes.
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