One of the strengths of Verity is its ability to perform full-text searches on documents of many formats. However, there are often times when you want to restrict a search to certain portions of a document, to improve search relevance. If a Verity collection contains some documents about baseball and other documents about caves, then a search for the word bat might retrieve several irrelevant results.
If the documents are structured documents, you can take advantage of the ability to search zones and fields. The following are some examples of structured documents:
Note: Although your word processor might open with what appears to be a blank page, the document has many regions such as title, subject, and author. Refer to your application's documentation or online help system for how to view a document's properties.