Copying & Pasting Searches in GIL

Copying and pasting a title to use for a search in GIL is a great little time saver, particularly when checking for duplicates on your order slips, but there is a caveat. When copying and pasting from a webpage, you can carry over formatting that will cause your search to bomb out even if we own the title.

For example, we have McGraw-Hill’s GMAT. If you copy and paste that title into a GIL Classic exact title search, as is, you'll get a "no matches found" message, even though we own it. When you copy the title, you're getting a formatted, as opposed to plain text, apostrophe. GIL Classic is very literal, especially in the exact search. This is why it's more precise than GIL Find, but also more demanding. If you remove the apostrophe and search on McGraw-Hills GMAT (or delete the apostrophe and retype, which will be plain text), you'll get two hits.

This premise applies to any sort of potentially formatted punctuation, accent marks, etc. If you remove anything like that from a copy and paste search, it won't bomb out unless we really don't own the title.

The above applies only to GIL Classic. GIL-Find seems to just ignore punctuation. However, I'm not 100% certain of that. If you have a copy and paste search bomb out, in any catalog or search interface, and you feel like it shouldn't have, removing any punctuation and accent marks is always a good first step.