The incremental column facility is used to locate an entry in a column in any window.

To Perform an Incremental Column Search:

Click on a column header in the active window and progressively type the word(s) or number(s) that make up the entry that you want to locate.

The window automatically locates the closest existing value in the column. The progress of the incremental search string is displayed on the active window titlebar in italic characters.

To use the find utility:

1. Right-click on the column header and select the Find option. A Find in “<column name>” column dialog box appears.
2. Enter the string to search for. If required, set the options to match on whole word and match case.
3. Click Find Next.

The search direction is top to bottom of a column. To reverse the search, click on the column header to reverse the sorting and use the Find option again.

This is used to find and tag multiple entries using a search string. It is of particularly use when you are trying to find files with a specific file extension.

To use the Contains option:

1. Right-click on a column header and select the Tag > Contains option. A dialog box appears, which is used to search for a specified string at the beginning, middle or end of entries in the column.
2. In the Search String field enter the text that you want to locate.
3. You can also specify actions to be carried out, after the string has been located. That is:
• Tag
• Untag
• Toggle
4. Click OK.

This is very useful for identifying the names of entries that you want to tag or untag.

1. To display the entry names contained in a column:
2. In the window, right-click on the column header and select the Chart option. A column chart is displayed.
3. Click the Options button, and set the Other group, % field to 0.
4. Click OK.

The chart will show the different entry names contained in the selected column in a list on the left side.