SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION

Finding documents whose titles start with specified text
The View - Starts With command lets you find text matches in a single column of a sorted view. The command is most useful if you know the exact spelling of the title of the document you're looking for, or the exact spelling of a category that the document is listed by, for example, the author's name in a By Author view.

Notes searches the first column by which the view is sorted, and highlights the first document found whose title starts with the text you entered. For example, if you sort your mail Inbox by author (click the Who column header), Notes searches that column for author names.

Tip You may be able to tell a column in a view is sorted if the database designer included a triangle in the column head to let you customize sorting.

The Starts With dialog box works in a view sorted by dates or numbers, but only in the first sorted column, not within a category.

Tip Some information that appears numeric (like social security numbers and zip codes) may have been stored as text by the database designer, so if you aren't sure, try the command.

If the first sorted column is categorized, Notes searches the categories, not the document titles. You can search subcategories or document titles below categories if the columns they appear in are also sorted, using the "Search Within Category" button.

The text you enter must exactly match spaces and punctuation, but does not need to be case sensitive or consist of whole words. For example, if a view that's sorted by last name contains Boggs, Angela, you can find that name by searching for "boggs, an" ("b" will also work if you don't mind having to page down through the Badenovs, Bancrofts, and Bogarts).

To use the "Starts with" dialog box

1. Open the database.

2. Open the view or folder containing the documents you are looking for.

3. Click the column header for the column you want to look in.


4. From the menu, choose View - Starts With.
5. Enter the text you want to search for in the "Search text" field.

6. Do one of the following:


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