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Finding Information in a Phone Book file
To search the alphabetical index for a name, begin typing the name. For example,
to find Meredit hin the current Phone Book, type M and you'll see the cursor
move to the first entry beginning with M.... Notice up in the second line of the
display that you've started a GOt 0 procedure—simply by typing. Continue by
typing © and you'll see the cursor move to the first entry beginning with “Me...”
This narrowing down of the search as you type continues until you either press
or after which you can use the arrow keys to move the cursor.
To search for information that isn’t indexed:
1. Move to the Card view: Press (MEIER), if necessary.
2. Press [F7) (SEYEIR).
3. Type the text you want to find (39 characters maximum). The search is not
case-sensitive; it treats upper and lower case identicaily.
4. Press to begin the search forward from the current card. To search
backwards (alphabetically) from the current card, you can press (F5) (HE=%)
instead of (ENTER).
You can also automatically search your Phone Book and create alist of records that
contain a particular bit of text. This might be useful in making smaller subset
Phone Books (see page 33), or similar database uses. Here’s how to do it:
1. Move to the index view: Press (MIEEERD if necessary.
2. Press (ERIE).
3. Type the text (39 characters maximum) that you want to find. The search is not
case-sensitive; it treats upper and lower case identically.
4. Press(ENTER). Beginning with the first record in the file, aindex list is displayed
that only includes records that contain the search text. You can highlight and
tag the entries on this list just as you would on the complete index list.
Notice the difference: The (M[EBE®) procedure filters the index—by displaying
only records containing a particular text. The (F5) (SERIE) procedure actually
moves the cursor to the next occurrence of a particular text.
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