Sonny Software

Hello, does anyone know how to search for, or make a group for, and also with initials? For example, “Smith JR" but not “Smith A". I have searched everywhere and could not find a way to do this except with REXED searches. Is there a simpler and and way to do this?

Hi,

You could do a Find (Command-F) for the *characters* Smith JR and then make a group from that. You could make a smart group this way as well. Is that what you're looking for?

Jon
Sonny Software

Dear Jon,
When I search for the characters Kunze, W. A. in authors, the following reference (inter alia) which should not be there is included:
Buniel, M.
Wisnoskey, B.
Glazebrook, P. A.
Schilling, W. P.
Kunze, D. L.

Kunze, D. L. is not me and other authors have W. and A. as initials. So it looks that I can't separate my papers from others with a similar surname if other authors share the same initial. !?

What kind of search are you doing, a Find or a Live Search? And when you say say "search for the characters" what does that mean -- those are the characters you've typed in, or you selected "characters" from the Find popup menu or are using quote marks in the Live Search box?

Jon
Sonny Software

Well in the control F search search is for TEXT, then "characters" then I typed in Kunze, W. and still go got Kunze, DL references. This is what I assumed you meant when you suggested a character search. Of course Kunze, W. are also characters, I acknowledge that. It doesn't matter if I search for "words begin with" " whole words" "characters" I usually get the unwanted references as well. It doesn't help to use quotation marks e.g. "Kunze, W."
So I am stuck.

Please zip your database and send it to me (support@sonnysoftware.com). We'll continue this off-forum.

Jon
Sonny Software