Search by Person

To do a search for every title in the database by Person, click on the "Person" radio button in the upper left hand corner, type in the last name of the author (case is irrelevant), and click on the "Search Database" button. After a brief delay, all the books/videos selected will be displayed in a standard Windows grid (the Answer Grid) at the bottom of the screen. Directly above the grid, on the right, you will see the number of records selected.

Note well! You only need to enter the first few letters of a name in the search box. The database will search for all titles whose author/magician has those same first letters. If you search on the letter "b"; you'll get only those titles with an author/magician starting with "B." If you don't enter anything in the Person box, ALL titles in the database (that have authors listed) will be returned.

You may also search for a name by entering the last name, a "," (comma) and the first name. Searching for "Harris, Paul," will get you all the books from Paul Harris, but not Ben Harris. A search for "h,p" will get you all books by authors whose last name start with "H" and first name starts with "P."

Search by Notes

To search for a title by looking for information in the "Notes" field, click on the "Notes" radio button, and enter a word or phrase. All titles that have this word in the "Notes" field will be displayed in the Answer Grid. You may make a "case sensitive" search by clicking on the "Case Sensitive" check box. If you do not enter anything in the "Word or Phrase" field before doing a database search, no records will be returned.

Search by Title

If you wish to search by Title, merely click on the "Title" radio button in the upper left hand corner, and type in the name of the title. As with an author search, you need not enter the complete title. If you don't enter anything in the title box, ALL titles will be displayed. If you have some titles in the database without any authors, you will retrieve MORE records searching on "Title" than on "Author."

Clear

Provided a quick way to clear the search criteria field. the cursor will be positioned in the criteria field to allow immediate entry of a new query criteria.

Choose Categories (Check boxes)

Allows you to select only those categories of book/video you wish to see in the answer table. Buttons are provided to enable you to quickly clear, or select all of the categories.

Choose Media (Check boxes)

Allows you to select only those media you wish to see in the answer table. Buttons are provided to enable you to quickly clear, or select all of the categories.

Search Database

This will use the criteria entered to select records to place in the Answer Table. The current records in the answer table will be replaced.

Sort by: (Radio buttons)

Changes the sort order of the entries in the Answer Table.

Close

Exits this screen, and returns to the previous screen.

Print

Prints the items in the Answer Table.

Export

Creates a file of those items in the Answer Table suitable for importing into another database.

Once a book/video is in the Answer Table, it can be selected for editing, or deleted. Additionally, the entire Answer Table can be printed or exported. In order to facilitate printing or exporting, individual tricks can be removed from the Answer Table.

Edit a Book

To edit an individual book, you can:

• Double-click on it.
• Right-click on it, and select "Edit" from the Pop-up menu.
• Scroll to it with the Up or Down Arrow keys, or your mouse, and press Enter.

Remove a book from the Answer Table

Before printing or exporting books in the Answer Table, you may wish to delete some of them. Simply right-click on the book, and select "Remove From Ans. Table" from the Pop-up Menu. This will delete the book from the Answer Table only, the book WILL remain in the database.

Delete a book from the database

If you want to delete a book from the database, right click on it, and select "Delete" from the Pop-up menu. You will see a message warning you that it is dangerous to delete a book from the database without first looking at all the information on the Edit book screen. To delete the book, click on "Yes," to keep it, click on "No." (We do strongly recommend you only delete nooks when you are in the Edit book screen.

Find Tricks in this book/Video

If you want to see what tricks (if any) in one of these books are in the database, right-click on the book/video, and select "Find Tricks" from the pop-up window. You will be taken to the Find Trick screen. All tricks from the selected item will be displayed.