Address, Postcode and Bank solutions
SEARCH TAB
Although Postcode can find most addresses using the Find Box and Lookup button, there are times when a more complex search is required - or where you wish to search on other fields. These are available on the Search Tab (shortcut key [Alt]+1).
Since AFD Postcode does not contain Organisation or Property data, these two fields are not available for use on the Search Tab
You can search using a town, county, STD Code, and/or partial postcode (you must include the space if searching more than just the outcode) along with optionally street and locality. (You cannot search on a street or locality on their own - choose AFD Postcode Plus if you wish to do that). But beware! Most problems in finding addresses result from giving TOO MUCH information rather than too little. Generally you should only need two parameters: town, county, STD Code, or partial postcode and street. You should also note that searching including the town is much faster than any other types of search, so always search on street and town when they are both known. Postcode returns a maximum of 300 records from a single search. If 300 records are returned you will need to refine your search. Note that Postcode Plus provides faster and more flexible searching.
When you have entered your Search request, click the Search Button or use the shortcut key [Alt]+S.
Please note: The Lookup Button and the shortcut key [Alt]+L will only work with the Find Box and cannot be used with Searches from the Search Tab.
Clear All ([Alt]+C)
Click the Clear button at the base of the
Main Window to clear all Search Fields, and any results - use Field-Clear
(below) to clear just one or two fields.
Field-Clear
To clear any individual field on the Search
Tab, click the descriptive label to its left - e.g. to clear the
'Street' field, click the letters of the word 'Street'.
If you place a dollar sign ($) before a street, locality, town, or county that you are searching on AFD Postcode will do a 'sounds like' search, useful when you don't know the exact spelling.
AFD Postcode also works with a set of special pattern matching characters to provide more enhanced searching facilities. These are as follows:
Character Description Examples * Any number of characters *ford would match anything ending in ford
*way* would match anything containing way
b*ford would match anything beginning with the letter b and ending with ford? Any character O?zells would match anything starting with O?zells where ? could be any character. # Any digit 01#1 would match any STD code that begun with 01, ends with 1 and has only one single digit between the two, e.g. 0121 ^ Don't include anything starting with this ^ in a field would indicate that field must be blank in any addresses that are returned, typing London^ in the town field would only return addresses in London and not those in Londonderry.
To move text from one field to another - without re-typing it - hold down one of the [Shift] keys (usually marked with a hollow arrow pointing upwards). Then click and hold down the left mouse button on the field you wish to move (drag) text FROM - the cursor will turn into the shape of a hand with a pencil - now move to the field you wish to place the text in (keeping the mouse button down). Finally, release the mouse button to drop the text in the new field.
You can drag text from other Windows programs - like Microsoft Word - and drop it into the fields on the Search Tab.
The Edit menu offers a 'Skip to Next Outcode' option. This suppresses the display of more than one record within each Outcode with the same town and can dramatically reduce the number of records to be examined in some types of Lookup or Search.
Note: An 'Outcode' is defined by the part of the postcode before the space, e.g. 'B1' is the outcode of 'B1 1AA'.
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