Find vs. Offset

[Peter Bogdanoff]

Colin,

Thanks. It is a reference work. However I'm allowing a string search which could be several words or parts of words. But I suppose an index could handle that.

Peter

On Dec 18, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:

> If it's a reference book you could pre index all of the words, then have a find field that knows the list of words used in each page. You could quickly know which cards contain any given word (using offset), and could then go to those cards to do a local find, to highlight the word.
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