The correct answer is D. Remove key terms from the dtSearch index noise words. Relativity’s dtSearch documentation explains that if a word in the search phrase is part of the noise words list, and that word is important to the search, you must remove it from the dtSearch noise words list and then rebuild the index. The documentation gives this exact type of guidance for terms like “and” when the term must be treated as part of the actual phrase instead of being ignored.

This makes options B and C incorrect because changing or deleting the attorney’s search terms would alter the intended search logic rather than making the index capable of respecting the requested phrase. Option A is also incorrect because the alphabet file is for searchable characters and tokenization behavior, not for managing ignored noise words. Therefore, before running the Search Terms Report, the correct step is to remove those key terms from the dtSearch index noise words list and rebuild the index if needed.