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View Filters: viewing the data
These are the task bar buttons, or from the Main Menu,
"View" or from the expert speedbutton bar:
[complete word short list topic date]
View Filters provide a way to look at your data in different ways.
You may print any given view on your printer by selecting
File/Print. You will then get a group box to select certain
items to print, or choose Select All then Group Print to
print all items. This list is your current view, not necessarily
the Complete View. The use of this group function window is
carried over in Paste and Copy.
When a Filter button is clicked, the main list at the
bottom of the screen will have different contents. The
entire list is still there, you are just looking at different
portions of it depending on the View Filter.
With all views except "complete" you are given the option
to move the search list to the end of you main list. This
is useful when you select Reverse by clicking on the
checkbox to the left and top of the list. When you check
off that box, the items that are found are physically moved
to the end of your main list. Next time you click Complete
with [now Reverse] switch on, you will see the found items
have been moved to the end of the complete list.
------> When you have filtered your list, and then enter a new
item, the new item will only appear in the current view list
if it meets the condition of the current view. However the new
item has in fact been added. You can change this so the
new item always displays (check off "Options/screen/always
display new item")
Here are the View Filters:
Complete: Your complete list. This list only changes if you
add, replace, or delete an item. The order may change
depending on other things you do.
By Word: This is a search by word(s). You may also search for
two things with AND, or either one or another thing with OR.
You can do this in a single filter, or even in the 2nd filter.
A drop down list shows your previous requests. Also, in a
single filter (Plain) you may specify whole words, so for
example "book" would be found but not "bookish" where your
request is part of a larger word.
Your last primary search causes a graphic to be updated
corresponding to the icon for each type of search. This graphic
is immediately above the list box of things. You can click this
icon to repeat the same type of search as the last one.
For your convenience, you can teleport to the Calendar
Search from this screen. (see Calendar below)
Important: Brings up a list of only the things marked important.
An item is marked important by checking off the
"important" box before saving with Add or Replace.
A squiggle appears at the left of an item.
--------> To unmark an item marked important, find it, click on it
in the main list (whatever the view) and uncheck
"mark important", then click on Replace.
By Topic: You choose a topic name, and the list will now
show those things having that topic. You can also add a topic
(optional) when you enter the thing, or replace it.
By Date: You have choices of all things on a certain date,
those which were enter today, those on or before
a given date, those on or since a certain date,
and those between two dates (inclusive).
An item has to be stamped with the date for
it to be recognizedi in a date search. This is used
to produce a view of your main list by date. This
is separate from the Calendar option, which is
separate from the main list. You may copy and paste
lines in and out of the main list to the calendar,
though.