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<title id="tit">Searching Tables and Form Documents</title>
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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<bookmark branch="index" id="bm_id4066896"><bookmark_value>finding;records in form documents</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147088"><image id="img_id3153311" src="cmd/sc_recsearch.png" width="1cm" height="1cm"><alt id="alt_id3153311">Icon Search</alt></image></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149178">In spreadsheets and documents in which form controls are used, you can click the <emph>Find Record</emph> icon on the form bar to open a dialog to find any text and values. </paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149811">You can search in one or in all data fields. You can select whether the text must be at the beginning, end or any location of the data field. You also can use the ? and * wildcards, as in the <emph>Find &amp; Replace</emph> dialog. You can find additional information about the database search function in the <link href="text/shared/02/12100200.xhp">$[officename] Help</link>.</paragraph>

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