If your index contains a lot of documents with a similar layout, such as forms, procedural manuals, resumes, databases or email messages, Named Sections can help to streamline the query process. Using text that already exists in your documents, you can define Named Sections, then create queries that look for words only within a particular Named Section.
Note that you can also perform searching using positional operators even without having defined your own named sections -- defining named sections is of use when the sections extend over multiple paragraphs, or when you want Perceptive Search to be able to display a list of all the available named sections.
For example, if you index the minutes of meetings and you want to find out which meetings John Smith attended, you could create a Named Section called "Present" and search for "John Smith" within that Named Section. Similarly, performing a query on "John Smith" in a section named "Apologies" could return all the meeting minutes for which John Smith was not present.
Named Sections can span single paragraphs, multiple paragraphs or even several pages in a document.
For more information about using Named Sections, click on a link below.