Search terms: boolean and exact phrase

I constructed my search terms per the "tips" to find messages containing the exact phrase "save as" and the word corrupt:
"save as" AND corrupt
the search returned a list of messages with the word "corrupt" highlighted as I would have hoped, but it also listed messages with "as" highlighted and even more bizarre, with the word "and" highlighted.
Did I miss something in the discussion of boolean expressions? Do I have to do something special to cause it to treat "and" as an operator instead of as a search string????
and why is it highlighting "as"???

I'm not seeing how that answered any of my questions.
I think my answer goes to this question:
Do I have to do something special to cause it to treat "and" as an operator instead of as a search string????
To:
Nor does it illustrate that the exact phrase operation is working.
You are correct. All it does is help you to get better results than you got using AND.

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