Searching
How do I search for a document?

Searching with Data Detective is easy and intuitive:

1.	Double-click on the Data Detective Searcher icon placed on your desktop during the installation.

The Searcher application will start. You may see a browser window appear momentarily before the main search window appears.

Clicking on one of the lettered tabs in the Indexing Notebook will show a list of all indexed words starting with that letter. Clicking on one of those words will copy it into the textfield.

Note that Data Detective supports a number of more powerful searching strategies (Boolean and proximity searching, phrases and wildcards).

3.	Click the Magnifying Glass, or hit Enter to perform your search.
4.	The documents that match your search query will be presented in the Results Notebook as hyperlinks.

Clicking on one of these hyperlinks will open the corresponding file.

5.	To clear the search query textfield and begin a new search, click the logo

Note that the Searcher works on the data accumulated by the Indexer at the time of indexing. If you've edited or added a substantial number of documents since the last indexing, you might want to run the Indexer again to make sure that the searching information is up to date.