SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION

Searching for documents whose titles start with specified text
Use the View > Starts With command to 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 are 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.

1. Within an appropriate view or folder, click the column header for the column you want to look in.

2. Click View > Starts With.

3. Enter the text you want to search for in the Search text field.

4. Do one of the following:


Search processes 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), Search scans that column for author names.

Tip You might be able to tell that a column in a view is sorted if the application 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 application designer, so if you are not sure, try the command.

If the first sorted column is categorized, Search processes 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 is 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).

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