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Administrator<br />

For more information about opening files to<br />

search through, see “Searching .dsd Files” on<br />

page 377.<br />

3. Click New Search.<br />

4. Click Edit Structure.<br />

The ChemDraw plug-in tools palette appears.<br />

5. Selecting appropriate ChemDraw tools, click in<br />

the Structure window and draw the structure<br />

you want to search for.<br />

ChemFinder/Office shows all of the files with<br />

the structure that you specify in the Hit List<br />

window shown below. Each entry in the Hit<br />

List is a record or a hit.<br />

N NH 2<br />

N<br />

For more information about using the Chem-<br />

Draw plug-in, see the ChemDraw User’s<br />

Guide.<br />

6. Alternately, you can select a structure from<br />

ChemDraw or from a ChemFinder database<br />

and paste it in the Structure window using the<br />

right-click menu.<br />

7. Click Find Now.<br />

NOTE: If the Find Now button is grayed out, you have not<br />

selected a file or directory to search. Click the Look In tab<br />

and make a selection.<br />

8. Use the forward and back arrows on the<br />

Record Search toolbar to navigate through the<br />

hits.<br />

If ChemFinder/Office finds no hits, a warning<br />

message appears. To refine your search so that<br />

ChemFinder has a greater possibility of finding<br />

hits, use the Search Options tab.<br />

Searching by Multiple<br />

Properties<br />

You can search for a chemical structure, chemical<br />

formula, molecular weight, or any combination of<br />

these properties simultaneously.<br />

To search for other properties or more than one<br />

property at a time:<br />

1. Click New Search.<br />

374•ChemFinder/Office<br />

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Searching by Multiple Properties

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