I have been trying to get the following to work:

(select p.uid, p.title, (DATENAME(MONTH,p.newDate) + ' ' +
DATENAME(DAY,p.newDate) + ', ' + DATENAME(YEAR, p.newDate) ) as Date,
p.tableName from authorsPubs AP, publications p, authors a where
AP.pubID = p.uid and AP.authorID = a.author_ID and p.display = 1 AND
( contains(a.name, ' ''rea'' OR ''akashi'' ' )) UNION select
FT_TBL2.libraryid as id, FT_TBL2.articleTitle, FT_TBL2.dateofPub as
date, FT_TBL2.tableName from resourceLibrary as FT_TBL2 where
( FT_TBL2.display = 1 ) AND ( contains(FT_TBL2.authoranalytic, '
''rea'' OR ''akashi'' ' )) OR ( contains(FT_TBL2.authormonographic, '
''rea'' OR ''akashi'' ' )) OR ( contains(FT_TBL2.authorsubsidiary, '
''rea'' OR ''akashi'' ' )) ) order by p.title

I have used Microsoft's parseIt function and another function to clean
up the ignored words and a 3rd function to build the query - the
function build the query works properly but how can I handle if a user
wants to enter an exact match by using double quotes around their
"search terms"

Thank you for any assistance - I have been looking at this way too long