• If you wish to search for primary information about a subject, do an ENTRY search. That will find a single entry on the given subject.
What You Can Do
1. Browse: Click a MODE button to select a mode, then browse through the index you see using the scroll bar, keys, or NEXT or PREVIOUS buttons.
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2. Look for a particular entry: Open the Find Strip. Select ENTRY. Begin typing the beginning of the entry name you are looking for. Pause for a second. The Episode Guide will automatically jump to a point in the index as close as it can get to what you typed. (Only up to the first four of the letters or numbers you type are used for this automatic search.) If you see the entry you want, you can then just click on it in the index. You can also click SEARCH or hit <return> even without finishing your typing.
HINTS: The Episode Guide knows the difference between capitals and lower-case letters, so if you land in an unexpected place in the index, it may be because the first letter you typed doesn't match the case of the letter in the index. If you want to find an episode by its number, just type the number.
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3. Click on an episode title enclosed in quotes in the text of an entry. Almost all of these phrases will take you to the entry for that episode. If the episode name is not complete (such as missing a "Part I" reference) or if the phrase inside quotes is not an actual episode name, the Omnipedia will revert to a WORD search.
• If you wish to search for any reference to a particular word, do a WORD search.
How A Word Search Works
A WORD search automatically creates a collection of entries which contain that word anywhere in their text. It then takes you to FOUND ENTRIES mode, where that collection is displayed.
What You Can Do
1. Click on almost any word in the text of an entry. The program will try to find other entries which contain that word.
2. Type a specific word into the Find Strip. (Select WORD, rather than Entry, before you start typing, or the program will think you are looking for an Entry.) Type the entire word and click SEARCH or hit <return>.
In either case, the search begins. Almost all words contained in any of the entries will be found. The collection of entries is automatically displayed in FOUND ENTRIES mode for you to browse.
This collection of found entries will be remembered by the program until you do another word search.
