User manual NUANCE OMNIFORM FILLER 3

[. . . ] OmniForm® Filler User's Manual Version 3. 0 for Windows 95 and NT CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California USA 95032-3321 Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 München, Germany Caere UK Information Centre Abbey House 4 Abbey Orchard Street Westminster, London SW1P 2JJ Centre d'informations Caere 50 rue des Archives 75004 Paris, France Please Note To use this program, you should know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment, and be aware of many of the universal keyboard shortcuts. Please refer to Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, or edit boxes. OmniForm Filler User's Manual Version 3. 0 for Windows 95 and NT 800-1284-030, A Copyright© 1998, Caere Corporation All rights reserved. CAERE®, Logical Form Recognition, OmniPage® Pro, OmniForm®, and OmniForm Filler are trademarks of Caere Corporation. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Such designations appearing in this manual have been printed in initial caps. [. . . ] This finds records that have entries in the Customer field beginning with a symbol, a number, or letters earlier in the alphabet than the entry, for example, France or Dharma Dogs. · is less than or equal to: find records of equal or lesser value than the Value entry. This finds records that have entries in the Customer field beginning with a symbol, a number, or the letter A up to the entry name itself. · begins with: find records that begin with the Value entry. This search finds records that have Franich & Halsey as the entry or at the beginning of an entry in the Customer field. · does not begin with: find records that do not begin with the Value entry or that do not contain the value entry at all. This search finds records that do not have Franich & Halsey as the beginning of the entry in the Customer field or records that do not contain Franich & Halsey at all. · ends with: find records that have the Value entry at the end of the selected field. This search finds records that have Franich & Halsey as the entry or at the end of an entry in the Customer field. Managing a Database 9 Managing Database Records · does not end with: find records that do not have the Value entry at the end of the selected field or records that do not contain the value entry at all. This search finds records that do not have Franich & Halsey at the end of an entry in the Customer field. · contains: find records that contain the Value entry. This search finds records that have Franich & Halsey entered anywhere in the Customer field. Be careful when selecting contains as one of your conditions. In a search for the value male, for example, your search would include any records that contained the word male. · does not contain: find records that do not contain the Value entry. This search finds records that do not have Franich & Halsey entered anywhere in the Customer field. · is empty: find records that have no entry in the selected field. The Value text box is disabled if this is selected. · is not empty: find records that have an entry of any sort in the selected field. The Value text box is disabled if this is selected. 10 Managing a Database Managing Database Records 4 Type the text to find in the Value text box. How OmniForm Filler searches for the information in the Value text box depends on the selection in the Condition drop-down list as described in the previous step. · Select Search All Records in the Database to search the entire record set. · Select Only Search Current Record Set to search a subset of records. This option is only available when you have a found set open from a previous search. 5 6 Click OK. OmniForm Filler searches for and retrieves all records that contain the information you specified in the Search dialog box. Click Clear Search to return to the full record set. Search information: the found set contains three records. Under the standard toolbar, OmniForm Filler displays the search information and number of records in the found set. You might, for example, want to search the Franich & Halsey record set for invoices from a specific month. You can search each new subset of records as many times as you need to find the specific information you want. OmniForm Filler maintains the current found set if it retrieves no records during a search. Managing a Database 11 Managing Database Records 7 Click Clear Search under the standard toolbar to return to the full record set when you are done. Sorting Records You can sort records in OmniForm Filler in ascending, descending, or original order entry. If you wanted to export mailing information, for example, you could sort records by postal code to reduce bulk mailing costs. [. . . ] The receiving machine then recreates the fax image on paper or stores the data on disk as a fax file. Glossary-1 field A form element in fill view into which you can enter information. A field might contain text, such as your name in a Name field, or preformatted OmniForm Filler information, such as a check that appears when you click a check box field. field validation In OmniForm, a feature that prompts a user to enter specific data in a field or to not leave a specific field empty. found set A subset of records in a database retrieved during a search. [. . . ]