VISTA Plus for MPE User's Guide

VISTA Plus Demonstration
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Searching Using a Predefined Index
In this example, you will do a search based on the index that was defined in the last procedure.
1. Press F8, Previous Keys.
2. Press F6, Search, from the Viewer screen. The function keys change.
3. Enter a string that you know you will find within the defined search index and press F5. The
label of this key reflects the name you gave your index. In the example below it is “Case No.”
VISTA Plus searches the columns (and lines) specified as positions in which the string
specified may appear. It finds occurrences of the string and highlights them. If you have a
report which is reviewed by different people for different accounts, you could create an index
for the position in which the account numbers appear. Different users can then use the index
function key to search the file for a specific value entered as a search string.
4. To exit VISTA Plus, press F8 repeatedly until you return to the MPE prompt.