# Find Text Dialogue Box

Use this dialogue box to find snippets containing specified text. The dialogue is displayed from the Search | Find Text menu option.

Enter the text you want to search for in the Text to find combo box. Recent search text can be accessed from the drop down list.

When more than one search word is entered you have a choice of whether to search for snippets containing all the words, or any of them. You specify which of these options you want by choosing the relevant radio button in the Search logic group box. For example, choosing the Find all words option and searching for "`Foo Bar`" would match the text "Foo and Bar" but would not match "Foo" or "Bar". Choosing Find any word instead and again searching for "`Foo Bar`" would match all the previous examples.

There are two more options for further refining the search:

1. Use the Whole words only check box to ensure that the search only matches words that exactly match those specified. If the check box is cleared then words containing the specified text will also be found. For example when the check box is ticked a search for "`Foo`" will match "Foo" in "Foo Bar" but will not match "FooBar". When the check box is cleared, "`Foo`" will match both examples.
2. Make the search case sensitive by checking the Case sensitive check box. In this case searching for "`Foo`" will match "Foo" but not "foo" or "FOO". If the check box is cleared then case is ignored and searching for "`Foo`" again will match all three examples.

You have the option of finding text across the whole database or, if you have run another search, searching only the snippets selected by the previous search, and so refining that search. The Search scope group box is used to decide which course of action to take.

If you choose to search the whole database any previous search is abandoned before this search is run. This means that if no snippets are found matching your search criteria, the previous search is lost and the whole database will be selected. On the other hand if you choose to refine a search and this search fails to find any snippets, the earlier search remains unchanged.

The Search scope group box is disabled if there was no previous search active when this dialogue box was opened. The search will operate on the entire database.