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Selecting by condition
The command Select > By condition lets you apply selection conditions like
“select all Smiths” or “select all recipients living in Houston”.
Detailed information about this selection method is given on the pages immediately
following.
Navigating between selected records
With the commands Go to > Previous selected record and Go to > Next selected
record you can jump to the previous or next selected data record.
Alternatively, you can use the icons and in the toolbar or the keyboard
shortcuts (Ctrl)(Alt)(PgUp½) and (Ctrl)(Alt)(PgDn¼) to do this.
Tip: Furthermore, with View > Show only selected records, you can hide all
data records that are not selected.
Selecting single records manually
With the command Select > Current record (keyboard shortcut: (Ctrl)(S)) you
select or deselect the data record currently displayed in the database module.
If you invoke this command when the current record is not selected, it is selected.
If you invoke the command when the current record is already selected, the record
is excluded from the selection.
Tip: In list view, data records can also be selected or deselected by clicking with
the mouse to check or uncheck the checkbox to the left of the data record.
With the commands Select > Select all records and Select > Deselect all records
you can select and deselect all the records in the data base at once.
Display in the status bar: The status bar at the bottom of the window also shows
whether a data record is selected or not: the word Selected appears here for a
selected data record.
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