VISTA Plus for MPE User's Guide

Chapter 7
7-12
Searching with VISTA Plus
VISTA Plus provides fast searching for specific values or strings within a report. In addition to
being able to search forward, by columns, by window, or for the last occurrence of a specified value,
VISTA Plus offers several other search capabilities. They are:
• Searching for all occurrences
• Searching for multiple text strings
• Searching for a text range
• Searching for a numeric range, including values greater than or less than
Use F6, Search, to initiate a search. When you press F6, the function keys and screen header
change as shown below.
You are prompted for a value or string. Enter a search string and press F1, Search Forward. When
the search string is found, the first page that contains the search string is displayed, and the string
is highlighted in reverse video. If the string is not found, an error message is displayed stating that
the string was not found. To terminate a search while it is still processing, press Ctrl + Y.