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Free text searching is searching for words in titles, abstracts and different types of subject terms. In other words everything but full-text.
It is indicated by .mp. in the search history.
It corresponds to a search on [All Fields] in Pubmed.
OVID automatically searches for phrases, so you do not need to use quotation marks when entering compound terms.
For example:
To learn how to combine search results using logical operators like AND,
see the Combining Searches Tab
For more advanced searching, such as specifying how close keywords should appear to each other (e.g., within an abstract),
see the Proximity/Adjacency Tab
Use Advanced search and remove the tick at Map Term to Subject Heading but keep the tick at Keyword.
Write your keywords and search.

After searching you will get the picture below:

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