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menu items are toggles; each time they are selected
them, the check mark is removed if it was there
already, or added if it wasn’t previously visible.
So, before you commence the search:
1. Enable Substructure from the Search menu.
2. Disable Similarity form the Search menu.
You can also conveniently view the database in
tabular form.
• Select Data Table from the View menu. Open a
Data Table in a separate window.
The Data Table appears and displays all records
in the current list in tabular form.
NOTE: See “Similarity Searching” in
ChemFinder Help (press the F1 key) for more
information.
The Search menu should now look like this:
Click a record in the Data Table to display its records
in your form window.
It is possible to sort records on any field.
To search for structures containing propane:
• Select Find from the Search menu, or click
the Find tool.
In the case of a substructure search, the matched
portion of each molecule is highlighted in red. All
hits are structures that contain a acetone
substructure.
Now, you can browse through these hits.
• Use the Record menu or the Record toolbar to
browse the hitlist (see “Browsing a Chemical
Database” on page 275).
To sort on the ItemNumber field:
• Double-click on the ItemNumber table header
in the Data Table.
After a short pause, the table is sorted by
number.
Close the Data Table by selecting Close from the
File menu.
You can return to the full database at any time. To
retrieve all the records in your database:
• Select Retrieve All from the Search menu or
click the Retrieve All tool.
NOTE: After a search, you do not need to retrieve
all your records before conducting another search;
you can perform another search at any time. Each
search will search over all records in the database.
ChemOffice Enterprise Workgroup & Databases 2005 Scientific Databases First Search Tutorial • 283
Performing a Structure Search