The Indexes of an allegro Database
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Every allegro database has alphanumeric indexes for browsing up and down, line by line.
What you find in the indexes and how many indexes there are, that depends on the concept of  the database you are using.
There's always a combo box at the top of the index window, and it contains the headlines of the indexes provided. There can be up to 11 of them.
In most cases there is at least one index for names and one for keywords.
Once you see an index window, use F1 for more help.

The indexes are always current. Any newly entered record can be found where it belongs right after having been saved.

You prefer Find commands or a dialog for Boolean combinations? This is available too; just press the  [Find] button. 
Consider, however:

With search commands, you never see what you miss. In the indexes you see it at once if there are different spellings (which happens frequently with names) or inflected forms (genitive, plural etc.) An index shows everything that occurs - so you won't miss anything. No program can guess what you had in mind when entering you statement, it will only ever look for exactly what you entered. This can make a considerable difference.

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