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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" id="contacts-searching">

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

    <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>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    
  </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" 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>Evolution 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>Evolution 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>
</page>