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more than a few people listed, you'll want some way of finding
them more quickly, which is why there's a search feature.
</para>
-
- <sect2 id="contact-search">
- <title>Searching for Contacts</title>
- <para>
- Between <guilabel>Delete</guilabel> and <guilabel>View
- All</guilabel> is a quick search field. To use it, select
- from the drop-down list which sort of search you'd like to
- perform (the whole card, just the name, or just the email
- address), then enter one or more words in the text entry
- box, and press <keycap>Enter</keycap>.
- <application>Evolution</application> will search through
- the contents of every displayed card to find one that
- matches. You can refine searches by doing several in
- succession, or start over by pressing the <guibutton>View
- All</guibutton> button.
- </para>
- <para>
- If there are no matches, the card display will be
- blank. When you'd like to see all the cards again, press
- <guilabel>Show All</guilabel>.
- </para>
- <example id="contact-quicksearch-ex">
- <title>Refining a Quick Search</title>
- <para>
- Tom comes back from lunch and finds a note on his
- keyboard: "Curtis in sales called for you, but he didn't
- leave a number, and I forgot to write down the name of the
- company he works for. He said it was important, though."
- Tom is not at all annoyed.
- </para>
- <para>
- He opens his contacts folder, and runs a quick search for
- "Curtis." There are eighteen different people with that name
- in the file. He then enters "Sales," and
- <application>Evolution</application> narrows it down to the
- right Curtis. He only becomes annoyed when he discovers that
- the call was not actually important.
- </para>
- </example>
-
- <para>
- If you prefer to perform a more complex search, press
- <guibutton>Find</guibutton> or choose
- <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Search for
- Contact</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This will open the
- in-depth search window, which lets you use multiple search
- criteria in the same way that email filters and <glossterm
- linkend="vfolder">virtual folders</glossterm> do.
- </para>
- <para>
- Click <guibutton>Add Criterion</guibutton> to increase the
- number of criteria you'd like to use in the search, and
- <guibutton>Remove Criterion</guibutton> to remove one from the
- bottom of the list. Your criteria may be a search within the
- <guilabel>Name</guilabel> or <guilabel>Email</guilabel>
- fields; alternately you can choose to search through all the
- fields with a regular expression. Then, you can select from
- all the familiar requirements like <guilabel>Begins
- With</guilabel> and <guilabel>Does Not Contain</guilabel>,
- decide whether to match <guilabel>All</guilabel> or
- <guilabel>Any</guilabel> of your criteria, and press
- <guibutton>Search</guibutton> to set it all off.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
-
</sect1>
<sect1 id="usage-contact-cards">
- <title>Destroy, Create, and Change: The Contact Editor</title>
+ <title>The Contact Editor</title>
<para>
To delete a card, click on it once to select it, then press the
<guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button. If you have multiple
@@ -370,6 +304,70 @@
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="contact-search">
+ <title>Searching for Contacts</title>
+ <para>
+ Between <guilabel>Delete</guilabel> and <guilabel>View
+ All</guilabel> is a quick search field. To use it, select
+ from the drop-down list which sort of search you'd like to
+ perform (the whole card, just the name, or just the email
+ address), then enter one or more words in the text entry
+ box, and press <keycap>Enter</keycap>.
+ <application>Evolution</application> will search through
+ the contents of every displayed card to find one that
+ matches. You can refine searches by doing several in
+ succession, or start over by pressing the <guibutton>View
+ All</guibutton> button.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If there are no matches, the card display will be
+ blank. When you'd like to see all the cards again, press
+ <guilabel>Show All</guilabel>.
+ </para>
+ <example id="contact-quicksearch-ex">
+ <title>Refining a Quick Search</title>
+ <para>
+ Tom comes back from lunch and finds a note on his
+ keyboard: "Curtis in sales called for you, but he didn't
+ leave a number, and I forgot to write down the name of the
+ company he works for. He said it was important, though."
+ Tom is not at all annoyed.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ He opens his contacts folder, and runs a quick search for
+ "Curtis." There are eighteen different people with that name
+ in the file. He then enters "Sales," and
+ <application>Evolution</application> narrows it down to the
+ right Curtis. He only becomes annoyed when he discovers that
+ the call was not actually important.
+ </para>
+ </example>
+
+ <para>
+ If you prefer to perform a more complex search, press
+ <guibutton>Find</guibutton> or choose
+ <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Search for
+ Contact</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This will open the
+ in-depth search window, which lets you use multiple search
+ criteria in the same way that email filters and <glossterm
+ linkend="vfolder">virtual folders</glossterm> do.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Click <guibutton>Add Criterion</guibutton> to increase the
+ number of criteria you'd like to use in the search, and
+ <guibutton>Remove Criterion</guibutton> to remove one from the
+ bottom of the list. Your criteria may be a search within the
+ <guilabel>Name</guilabel> or <guilabel>Email</guilabel>
+ fields; alternately you can choose to search through all the
+ fields with a regular expression. Then, you can select from
+ all the familiar requirements like <guilabel>Begins
+ With</guilabel> and <guilabel>Does Not Contain</guilabel>,
+ decide whether to match <guilabel>All</guilabel> or
+ <guilabel>Any</guilabel> of your criteria, and press
+ <guibutton>Search</guibutton> to set it all off.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="usage-contact-organize">
<title>Organizing your Address Book</title>
<para>
@@ -595,33 +593,18 @@
-->
</sect2>
-<!--- FIXME this feature not yet implemented
- <sect2 id="usage-contact-automation-extra">
- <title>Map It!</title>
- <para>
- Need a map or directions? Click
- <guibutton>MapIt</guibutton> from within the contact
- manager, and <application>Evolution</application> will
- map the address for you online.
- </para>
- </sect2>
--->
-
-
+ <!--- FIXME this feature not yet implemented
+ <sect2 id="usage-contact-automation-extra">
+ <title>Map It!</title>
+ <para>
+ Need a map or directions? Click
+ <guibutton>MapIt</guibutton> from within the contact
+ manager, and <application>Evolution</application> will
+ map the address for you online.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ -->
+
+
</sect1>
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