Select Person
At the start of each report, or when you pick the Find button on the Edit screen, a window will open where you can select the person you want. Type a name of a person or the BK code number of a person and then click Find. If you type a name, it will show you a list of matching names and you may select the person you want. If you type a number, it will find that person and return.
You may type the first five letters of the first name then a space and the first five letters of the last name to find anyone. If there are a lot of people with similar names you may type the first 10 letters of the first and last name. You may also type a / followed by whatever is in the Ref: field to find a person. For example, if you have 123 in the Ref: field for a person, then you may type /123 to find that person.
If you do not know the first name of the person you are searching for, type a ? for the first name. For example type: ? Smith to find everyone with a last name of Smith.
If you do not know the last name of a person you are searching for, type a ? for the last name. For example type: John ? to find everyone with the first name of John.
If you know part of the name, you may type what you know and substitute question marks for the part you do not know. Type five letters or question marks for the first name and type five letters or question marks for the last name. For example type: James St??? to find everyone with a first name of James and a last name starting with ST. Or type: ?OB?? Steed to find everyone with the last name of Steed and with a first name that has OB is the second and third letters. That would find Robert Steed and Bob Steed. Note that if you type a ? for the first letter of both the first and last name, it will take a long time to find all the matching names since the program must read every name in the database. So type the first one or two letters of the last name to speed up the search. Remember to type five letters or question marks for the first and last name. Because if you type: J Steed it will find only people with the one letter J for the first name, whereas if you type: J???? Steed it will find all people that have the first name starting with J and followed by other letters.
If you want to find someone by the middle name or by soundex code you can use the Word Search routine instead.
If you turn on the option to also search by alternate name, it may require two or more seconds additional time for the search. It will do the normal search, then do a search of alternate names (the names entered on the Names tab such as Nickname, Also known as, and Adopted name.) If you change the option for alternate names, you must click the Find button again to restart the search. If you want to save the default setting, click Options and then Close and it will remain at that setting each time you start the program. It will not search alternate names if you entered a partial first or last name that contains ??? characters. It will search alternate names if you entered both a first and a last name or you entered one ? for the first or the last name. The alternate names will appear at the bottom of the list of names with the * character before the name.
If a person has a two part last name, or if the last name is not the last word in the name, then see Last Names. If the last name is a two or three part name, you can search for it by putting [ ] around the last name. For example, search for: John [Van den burg]
If there are several matching names, click the name you want then pick Select or else double click the name.
If you come to the Select Person screen and it is showing a list of names from the previous search, you may select a person from that list, or you may enter a new name to search for. The name field will be highlighted and if you press any letter, it will erase the name that is in the field. You do NOT need to erase the previous field. When you press any key, it will erase the old name. If you only want to edit the name in the name field, then press the right or left arrow key before any other key.
Choose Cancel if you do not want to select a person.