A question about Bloomberg

Hello,

Many times to make a trading decision we need to be informed and why not, browse charts and look at different securities, investments etc. to get a clear picture of what's going around.

So I was reading today many articles about Eurozone contagion and sovereign debt crisis and stumbled upon an interesting chart, linked from a website to Bloomberg.

My question is: how can one know exactly how to find the ticker symbol on the bloomberg site (not terminal) for lets say Italian Government Bond 5 year yield? I know the required symbol is GBTPGR5:IND but how on earth can I find it prior to knowing it from the article that linked to that chart. So this is a matter regarding ones limitedness when browsing financial information and how to succumb it.

Is there a way people learn or find ticker symbols easier?

P.S. I tried writing different keywords in the bloomberg search field on their site but I just can't seem to find this govt bonds if you don't already know the full ticker symbol. So how do they do it? Am I missing something?

How could I find let's say, the Spanish bonds if I wanted to make a comparison??

Please, someone smarter, help me!

If you know the exact ticker, you can use the address line to get to its page:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=
add the ticker's name after =.

You should also be able to get there by pasting the ticker name into their search box. It will load the list of matches and will allow you to select the one that interests you out of the list.

Let me tell you about a wonderful invention I just found out about. It's unbelievable: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Spanish+5+year+bond

What will they think of next?

Thank you enivid and Adal. While both offering good workarounds (some that I thought of and some not) they don't address exactly what I was looking for. I was looking more for a way of finding out various ticker names and symbols, in cases when you don't know already what you are looking for. I needed some kind of bloomberg ticker browser or something: maybe i know to search for spanish and italian 2 yr and 5 yr bonds but I don't know that there are ones for 10 yr or 30 yr, basically I can't search something that I am not aware it exists - either as a result of my ignorance or lack of skills etc.

But anyways, thanks guys! And that site that googles for someone else is hilarious

I hope this will help you:
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/companies/
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/funds/
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/indexes/