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Finding strings within text field

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Novice needing help. A lot of my text fields contain lengthy text blocks. Is there some way to execute word-processor-like searches WITHIN a text field, resulting in highlighted occurrences of the string, or some other means of quick identification? 

 

In case clarification is needed: Say, I want to see every occurrence of the string "elections" within my database. I start by doing a basic Find for "elections" in the appropriate field. Now, I have a found set. But, since my text blocks are very lengthy, it takes alot of eye-balling to find the the string "elections" within the entry as I browse each record in the found set. Ideally, I'd like each occurance of the string to already be highlighted upon browsing the record, but I understand that's probably not feasible. I'd be happy even if I had to re-type the string in a search box as I browsed each record. At the moment, I'm resorting to copying the text blocks, pasting them into Microsoft Word, then searching for the string. 

 

Thanks in advance for your help. 

Here is a file by Ray J. Cologon that does what you describe. Automatically Highlighting All Occurrences of a User-Specified Text String file Link

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  • Newbies

Thanks Lee! I appreciate the help.

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