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USING THE FIND WINDOW 451. Click Find > Find Records or Find Categories to open the Findwindow.2. Select a search criterion from the Criteria list. This menu lists allrecord or category fields activated for searching.Criteria3. Select an operator from the Operator menu. This menu lists alloperators that are possible for the field type of the field selectedas criteria.Operator4. Either select a value from the Value list, type a value in, or drag anappropriate object onto the field. (Appropriate objects can beeither thumbnails or category icons.)Value5. Leave the default search method Search in All Open Catalogs.This method searches all catalogs included in the current collection.6. Click New Collection so that the records found will be displayedin a new collection of their own.7. Click Find.Compound SearchesIn larger catalogs, finding records with a single search criterion may notbe efficient. To avoid sifting through tens of thousands of records, youmay need to use more than one search criterion. For example, you maybe looking for a photographic image in EPS format.Cumulus lets you do this in two different ways:• You can enter a compound search (more than one search criterion),OR• You can narrow the results of a simple or compound search. (See“Narrowing the Search,” p. 48.)Building a compound search isn’t much more difficult than building asimple search. You just have to think in terms of what you are askingCumulus to do, and then translate that request into the search fields. Forexample, your request, in English, might read:“I need all records in the Photographs category that have ‘tree’somewhere in their names.”Translated into Cumulus-speak, this becomes:• Category is Photographs and Record Name contains tree.Now let’s break it down into separate search statements, called “conditions.”• Category is Photographs