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Chapter 16: ChemFinder Basics<br />

Overview<br />

ChemFinder is a database management system that<br />

allows storage, retrieval, and searching of molecular<br />

structures, text, and numerical data.<br />

You create structures in ChemDraw or with the<br />

built-in ChemDraw ActiveX control to store in<br />

your ChemFinder database, and add related<br />

numerical or textual data and comments. You can<br />

use the Chem3D ActiveX control to view the<br />

structures.<br />

Use ChemFinder as a reference, together with one<br />

of the CD-ROM databases provided. Use it as your<br />

corporate database system, available to anyone on<br />

your network. Use it as a registration system or<br />

front-end search engine for your big mainframe<br />

database. Use it as a custom viewer for your Oracle<br />

data, with or without chemical structures. Use it to<br />

keep track of what you find in your routine<br />

literature scans. Use it to make a database to keep<br />

the figures that go in your thesis or your next paper.<br />

The general steps for using ChemFinder are as<br />

follows:<br />

• Create a form.<br />

• Create or open a database and link it to the form.<br />

• Add or manipulate data.<br />

• Perform a search.<br />

These steps are described in the Tutorials, and in<br />

the detailed reference material in the manual.<br />

The ChemFinder GUI<br />

The ChemFinder GUI consists of menus, toolbars<br />

and the form window. The central part of the form<br />

window contains the work space where you create<br />

and view structures and data. The toolbars contain<br />

icons that change the way the pointer behaves or<br />

that perform actions corresponding to menu<br />

commands.<br />

ChemFinder<br />

<strong>ChemOffice</strong> 2005/ChemFinder ChemFinder Basics • 221<br />

The ChemFinder GUI

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