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Search Facilities

Click 'Search' on the toolbar, then 'Edition Search' or 'Transcript Search'. A Search window opens:


Click 'File' to access a different Search window.

Click 'Result' if you wish to see SGML tags when displaying search results. For more information about SGML, see below.

Click 'Help' to access the Search Index.


There are four primary means of searching the Edition and Transcript:

From the Edition Search symbol toolbar, use:

The Transcript Search symbol toolbar also includes keys for accented letters:

Other options include:

Case sensitive to distinguish upper and lower case (default disregards case).

Ð=Þ treats ð and þ as the same letters in searches.

Combined Search activates <WITH> in Word Search to look for instances of two or more words occurring within the same line.


A search may be narrowed in one of the following ways. Search by:

'No. of instances' displays the number results for a search. The first instance appears in the small white screen at the bottom.

'Show Result' opens a large white screen above displaying all line references from the search. If the relevant file is open, double-click any line reference to go to the corresponding place in the edition or transcript.

The functions on the bottom toolbar are:

  • Search executes a search.
  • Previous moves backward to previous search result.
  • Next moves forward to next search result.
  • Count counts search results without displaying them.
  • Stop aborts a search.
  • Clear clears screen for new search.
  • Collapse compresses search window:

To restore the full window, click Expand.

  • Close closes the Search window.

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