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From: chh9@quads.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halton Halling)
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Subject: Re: HC find quirks
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Date: 14 Sep 90 23:23:10 GMT
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In article <1990Sep14.223831.17977@athena.mit.edu> 
        shawn@athena.mit.edu (Shawn O'Donnell) writes:
>I haven't been able to determine how HyperCard knows whether to find a 
>string of text on the same card or on later cards.
>

In my experience, I have found that the find command searches the fields
in field order (that is, field number 1 is searched before field number 2).
Probably, the first field you look for has a higher number than the second
field you look for.  (I'm not talking about the ID number, I'm talking
about the "field number" as given in the "field info..." dialog box.)

This may mean that after you do your find and get a hit in the first field
(with the higher field number), the next search won't continue on the same
card but will go to the next card before the field you limited your search
to is examined.  (Oh, boy!  That isn't very clear.  Anyway, try my suggestion
below to see if it works, and let me know if it does.)

To decrease the number of a field, choose the field tool,
click on the appropriate field, then type command-hyphen.  To increase the
number of a field, type command-equals.  I would just keep doing this
until the first field you want to search has become field number 1.

--
Conrad Halling
chh9@midway.uchicago.edu