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Indexes

In Keepers | Indexes, find indexed words by scanning the list box “Words” or by using Find, as explained below. In this section, you can view or launch files that contain indexed words you are looking for.

Open Click on the “Open” button to open the index named in the window to the right of the button. To change the index named in the window, click on an index name in the “Index” list box. Once an index is open, use the “Find” button and the list boxes described below to scan or search the index, and to view or launch files that contain indexed words.

Find Click on the “Find” button to find a word or expression in the currently open index. The search is based on what you entered in the edit box beside the “Find” button. See Find. When you click on “Find” in Keepers | Indexes, the list box entitled “Found” appears, displaying the results of the search.

List boxes

Index This list box contains the names of indexes that you have created in Keepers | Make. To open an index, double-click on its name in the “Index” list box. When an index is opened, the “Contents” and “Words” list boxes display the index.

Contents Information about the index currently open is displayed in the “Contents” list box as follows.

# Words This is the number of words contained in the index.

Folder(s) This is the entry in Folder(s) that was used to make the index.

File(s) This is the entry in File(s) that was used to make the index. NOTE that the File(s) line here may contain excluded file extensions, added to the File(s) line when the index was made and stored on disk. If so, the excluded file extensions appear as “< *.extension1 < *.extension2”. See Options - Exclude.

Subfolders Either “yes” or “no” appears to indicate whether subfolders were included in the index.

Reading files This indicates the setting, at the time of indexing, for Options - Find Reading files.

# Files indexed This represents the number of files in the index. This information appears only if the “List files” checkbox is checkmarked.

Checkbox This list box has a checkbox at the bottom, which controls the information shown.

List files Checkmark the “List files” checkbox if you want a complete list of all indexed files to be shown in the “Contents” list box.

Words The “Words” list box contains all the words in the index. Click on an indexed word in this list box to see the names of indexed files that contain the word. The file names appear in the list box entitled “File Name | Matches | Folder”.

Found This list box contains the results of a Find operation, that is, a search of the indexed words. Click on an indexed word in this list box to see the names of indexed files that contain the word. NOTE that this list box does not appear until you click on the “Find” button. It disappears when you click on the “Words” list box. To restore it, click the “Find” button again.

File Name… The list box entitled “File Name | Matches | Folder” displays the names of files that contain the word that you clicked on in the “Words” or the “Found” list box. For each file name, the number of matches, that is, occurrences of the indexed word, is shown, as well as the file’s folder name (path).

Actions on Index Results in the “File Name…” list box

See Index Results.