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- From: Jonathan Duddington
- Subject: Selecting Subsets
- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 23:00:00
- Source: docs
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- The "Make Subset" dialogue allows you to create a new Article List which
- contains articles which you have selected according to various
- search and selection criteria.
-
- The "Make Subset" dialogue is invoked by choosing "Subset" from the
- Article List menu, or by pressing F4 in the Article List window.
-
- The fields in the Make Subset dialogue are as follows:
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- Select All.
- This simply selects all the articles in the Article List.
-
- Search All.
- This selects articles from the Article List which match the selection
- criteria given below.
-
- Search Subset.
- This selects articles from the Article List which are currently marked
- as Selected (i.e. white on black lettering) and which also match the
- selection criteria given below.
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- The Selection Criteria:
-
- Categories.
- Enter Category names in here, either by typing the names, or by clicking
- with Menu to open the Category window, and adjust-clicking a Category in
- that to add it to this field.
- Articles which have ANY of the specified Categories will be selected.
-
- String.
- Enter a text string here. Various fields of the articles are searched to
- match with this string, and articles are only selected if a match is found.
-
- The # character can be used in this search string to indicate "any single
- character".
-
- Search ... Author ... etc.
- These are the fields which are to be searched in the articles to look
- for a match with "String". The article is selected if a match is found
- in ANY of the specified fields.
-
- Author
- Title
- Comment
- Keys
- Search the Author, Title, Cmnt, Keys fields respectively of the articles'
- headers.
-
- Note, the Cmnt and Keys fields will not be displayed in the Article
- Viewer window if they are empty. They can be revealed by clicking
- on the Yellow Triangle button in the Article Viewer window.
-
- Body.
- Search the main text of the articles (not including the internet
- header).
-
- N.Chars.
- If this field is set, it restricts a search of the main text of the
- articles to the first so many characters.
-
- Internet headers.
- If this option is set, then the internet headers (if present) of the
- articles will also be searched.
-
- Case Sensitive.
- Matches with the search String are case insensitive, unless this option
- is set.
-
- Date From.
- Only search articles which have this date or later. Earlier articles
- will not be selected. Dates must be given in the format: 01 Aug 97
-
- Date To.
- Only search articles which have this date or earlier. Later articles
- will not be selected.
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- New.
- Create a new article list which contains only those articles which
- meet the search criteria.
-
- Keep.
- Doesn't create a new list, but just keeps articles in the original
- list which meet the search criteria. The other articles, which don't,
- are removed from the list.
-
- Drop.
- Remove articles from the article list which meet the search criteria.
-
- Add.
- Add articles to the current article list from another specified list.
- Only those articles from the other list which meet the search criteria
- are added. Type the name of the required article list into the "From"
- field. The name "All" indicates all articles in all document boxes.
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