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Search (and Filtered View)

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The primary interface for performing a search is the Search field. To perform a search:

Note: If you have customized the toolbar by removing the Search field from it, or if the toolbar is closed, you won’t be able to perform a search.

As you type in the Search field, your view of the outline automatically changes to include only those topics that include the Search field text. This is called Filtered view. Filtered view is indicated by the word “Filtered” appearing in the document window’s status bar. And the filtered topics are displayed in a special way: their triangles are grey.

When the insertion point is in the Search field, you can press Tab to return the insertion point to the current topic in the filtered view.

The illustration below shows the same outline, first viewed normally, and then viewed filtered on the word “Moe.”

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In filtered view, your outline’s hierarchical structure is suppressed: all displayed topics are shown at the same level. Therefore, all forms of outline reorganization are forbidden: you can’t make a new topic or move or delete a topic. You also can’t focus on a topic. You can, however, edit the text of a displayed topic, and you can perform a find (and replace).

If you alter a topic’s text in Filtered view so that it no longer contains the term that caused it to appear in this Filtered view in the first place, it will not magically vanish from view! So, don’t worry.

Filtered view filters the whole outline (regardless of the expanded or collapsed state of any topic). Thus, if you are in Filtered view and you change the term in the Search field, it is the whole outline that will be freshly filtered — not the existing Filtered view.

To leave filtered view:



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Find (and Replace)