When performing a search, you may wish to locate those documents that refer to your topic but do not contain the precise keywords you used when constructing your search. The Thesaurus feature lets you indicate that documents containing either the keywords you enter or their synonyms should be retrieved by your search.
Each practice area has its own thesaurus. For example, if you are conducting a search of Federal sources, the list of terms related to your keywords - as displayed by the Thesaurus - appears specifically in Federal practice area documents.
On the other hand, if you are searching sources drawn from several practice areas, the Thesaurus will generate an integrated list of related terms where they occur in any of the practice areas you have selected.
The Thesaurus is available for any search in which you use keywords.
Note: For users of earlier versions of Checkpoint, Thesaurus replaces and enhances the functionality formerly provided by the '$' wildcard character.

Each time you add a related term to your search, the Current Query window updates to reflect your decision.
Note: You can activate the Automatically apply all thesaurus terms option from the Search/Display options screen if you want all available thesaurus terms to automatically be applied to your keyword searches.
Note that you can also manually make changes to your query in the Current
Query window. If you do so, make sure each term is separated
by the bar (|) character.
You can add different search syntax and connectors by selecting the desired
connector in the Connectors box and clicking Append.
Click OK to accept the changes you have made to your search,
or Cancel if you wish to revert to your initial search terms.
The Thesaurus dialog box closes and you are returned to the Search
screen, where your revised search query appears in the Keywords field.
The Thesaurus/Query Tool also includes a Spell Checker to check for spelling errors in your Checkpoint searches. To use this feature:
