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<title id="tit">Searching With a Form Filter</title>
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<bookmark branch="index" id="bm_id8772545"><bookmark_value>form filters</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>databases;form filters</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>searching; form filters</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>removing;form filters</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>filtering; data in forms</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>data;filtering in forms</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>forms; filtering data</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>data, see also values</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149182">Open a form document that contains database fields.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159157">As an example, open an empty text document and press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline> + Shift + F4 keys. Open the bibliography database table <emph>biblio</emph> in the data source view. While pressing Shift+<switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>, drag a few column headers into the document so that the form fields are created.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150984">On the <emph>Form Controls</emph> toolbar, click the <emph>Design Mode On/Off</emph> icon to turn off the design mode.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148672">On the <emph>Form Navigation</emph> toolbar, click the <emph>Form-Based Filters</emph> icon. The current document is displayed with its form controls as an empty edit mask. The <emph>Form Filter </emph>toolbar appears.</paragraph>
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					<image src="cmd/sc_formfilter.png" id="img_id931679928863237" width="1cm"  height="1cm"><alt xml-lang="en-US" id="alt_id881679928863238">Icon Form Navigator</alt></image>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149666">Enter the filter conditions into one or several fields. Note that if you enter filter conditions into several fields, all of the entered conditions must match (Boolean AND).</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149481">More information about wildcards and operators can be found in <link href="text/sdatabase/02010100.xhp">Query Design</link>. </paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152462"><ahelp hid=".uno:FormFilterExecute">If you click the <emph>Apply Form-Based Filter</emph> icon on the <emph>Form Filter</emph> toolbar, the filter will be applied.</ahelp> You see the <emph>Form Navigation</emph> toolbar and can browse through the found records.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145273"><ahelp hid=".uno:FormFilterExit">If you click on the <emph>Close</emph> button on the <emph>Form Filter</emph> toolbar, the form is displayed without a filter.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150114">Click the <link href="text/shared/02/12120000.xhp"><emph>Apply Filter</emph></link> icon on the <emph>Form Navigation</emph> toolbar to change to the filtered view.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146898">The filter that has been set can be removed by clicking <link href="text/shared/02/12040000.xhp"><emph>Reset Filter/Sort</emph></link> icon.</paragraph>
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				<paragraph id="par_id501679929385841" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Reset Filter/Sort</paragraph>
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