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      type="topic" id="contacts-searching">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="searching-items" />
    <link type="guide" xref="contacts-organizing" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.5.90" version="0.4" date="2012-08-17" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Max Vorobuov</name>
      <email its:translate="no">vmax0770@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Novell, Inc</name>
    </credit>

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    <desc>Searching contacts.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Searching Contacts</title>

<section id="search-single">
  <title>Searching in a Single Contact</title>

  <p>To find text in the displayed contact, select
  <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Find in Contact…</gui></guiseq> from the main
  menu.</p>

</section>

<section id="search-many">
  <title>Searching Across Contacts</title>

  <section id="quick-search">
    <title>Quick Search</title>
      <p>In the Contacts view, you can quickly search for contacts either by
      category or by contact's info.</p>
      <p>Searching by contact's info:</p>

      <steps>
        <item>
      <p>Click the search icon
      <media type="image" mime="image/png" its:translate="no" src="figures/search-icon.png"/>
      to expand the drop-down list.</p>
        </item>
        <item>
      <p>Select the search condition from the list.</p>
    </item>
        <item>
      <p>Enter the text you want to search for and press
      <key>Enter</key>.</p>
    </item>
        <item>
      <p><app>Evolution</app> displays the search results.</p>
    </item>
      </steps>

      <p>Searching by category:</p>

      <steps>
        <item>
      <p>Click the <gui>Show</gui> drop-down list.</p>
    </item>
        <item>
      <p>Select the category from the list.</p>
    </item>
        <item>
      <p><app>Evolution</app> displays the search results.</p>
    </item>
      </steps>

      <p>If you want to set several search conditions, you should use an
      Advanced search, which is described below.</p>
    </section>

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</section>

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