Find allows the user to locate specific components through their data fields (such as name, address, business, title, etc.). It is pictured below:
Find: Accessing the find menu
The Find menu can be accessed in two ways.
- On the Home tab – go to the Find command.
- Press CTRL+F.
Find: Search parameter fields
Find contains three search parameter fields. The following is a list of the filterfields and their associated options (accessed through each field’s drop down menu).
- Field Name – this area allows you to conduct a search based on the chart’s data fields (i.e. name, title, company, etc.).
- For the broadest search, choose Any Field.
- To narrow the search, choose a specific data field listed in the drop down menu.
- Comparison – this filter tells the search engine how to interpret the text you input into the Contents field. It tells the engine if it is looking for text that matches, or text that doesn’t, etc. The following is a list of the available options:
- Equal to – searches for a data string that is equal to the value in the Contents field.
- Not Equal to – searches for all data that is not equal to (does not match) the value in the Contents field.
- Not contains – this filter searches for all data that does not contain the value in the Contents field.
- Empty – searches for components that contain empty fields.
- Contents – this is where you type keywords relating to your search. A list of previously entered keywords is located in the dropdown menu.