Find and Search

The Home | Tools | Find command and Home | Tools | Search field finds objects based on a specific ID and criteria. The Find command opens the Find Object dialog, where search criteria are specified. To find objects using the current search criteria, type the text you want to search for in the Search field and press ENTER. Use the arrow at the right to select from a list of the most recently used text strings.

Find Object Dialog

Find objects in the active layer with

Home | Tools | Find command

Enter the desired text in the Find input box. Click the down arrow to the right of the box to select a recently used text string.

The type(s) of object(s) included in the search can be selected in the Match one of the selected objects list on the left of the dialog. You can select or deselect objects from the list by clicking on the object name. To select all of the object types, click the Select All button below the list. Click the Deselect All button below the list to deselect all object types.

The Match one of the selected ID/attributes section to the right of the dialog lists all of the possible IDs to search. Choose from PID, SID, Hyperlink, and any available attributes. In the image above, ID3 and ID4 are user defined attributes. To select or deselect one of the IDs, click on the ID. Click the Select All or Deselect All buttons to select or deselect all IDs/attributes respectively.

If you have case sensitive characters in the Find text string, enable the Match case check box.

Select a search method in the Method list.

Match exactly returns items the are equivalent to the text string in the Find field in the dialog or Search field on the ribbon bar.
Contain phrase returns items that contain the entire phrase. For example, "Gold" would return "Golden" since the search phrase is contained within the word.
Contain all of the words returns items that have every word of the text string, regardless of order.
Contain any of the words returns items that have any word of the text string.

The Find All button finds all the objects that satisfy the above criteria. If you want to find the objects that meet the criteria one at a time, click the Find Next button.

Click OK or Cancel to close the dialog without searching. Clicking OK saves the attribute and object selections for the next time you use the Home | Tools | Search command. Clicking Cancel does not save the selected objects and attributes.