Hi.
One of my projects is for poems, and I now have about 150 of them. Each is a separate “text.” When I search for a phrase, trying to find a certain poem, it doesn’t appear to search in the binder, which I find odd. In another project, my novel, it does search the binder, and lists all the “texts” I’ve added–chapters, and highlights the word or words in each chapter.
The binder does seem to shift when I hit enter, but the word I’m searching for “requiem” doesn’t come up. Can you imagine what is happening?
Thank you,
Skye
The search Scope may be preventing the Result from coming up.
If you click the Looking glass icon above the Binder, what checkboxes are ticked in the Project Search Scope pop-up?
You may also search in one document (Ctrl-F) versus the entire Project (Edit > Find > Project Find).
Agree with Antoni look at search parameters make sure text is clicked not keywords, labels etc, make sure searching for a word not regex and finally look to see if searching compiled only and if so what is compile status of your poems?
A good way of sorting out any potential search setting issues is to click on the magnifying glass beside where you type, in project search, and click “Reset Search Settings”, toward the very bottom. The default settings are very lenient, even finding stuff in the trash, and looking for text in just about every area you can type or assign words to a thing.
If that doesn’t find it, use File ▸ Save and Rebuild Search Indexes menu command (on a Mac, hold down the Option key to see it), and then try again.
By the way, if all you’re mainly trying to do here is navigate to one specific thing so that you can work on it in the main editor, the Project Search tool is inefficient for that. It’s good when you want a list of things to go through at leisure, but if you’re just trying to get some place, all of that loading up and closing of the sidebar is overhead you don’t need. Try clicking into the “URL bar” looking thing in the middle of the main toolbar, and typing in “requiem” or whatever else you need to distinguish this poem from the rest. Use the arrow keys to select, and Return to jump straight to it with no further fuss.
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