AnyPO has two ways of searching: Basic Search or Advanced Search.  The following describes Basic Searching.

The Basic Search feature is used to locate purchase orders--either by a purchase order number or by a name, state or city.  It is reached by selecting GO TO from the Menu Bar and choosing SEARCH. Other ways of accessing the Search Dialog box are to: 1) Click on the "Search" button on the lower right hand portion of the Main Purchase Order Screen.  2) Press Ctrl+S on your keyboard; or 3) press the right mouse button when the cursor is on the Purchase Order Screen and select "Search" from the Speed Menu.

In the Search Dialog Box you can enter the purchase order number of the purchase order you are looking for--and if the purchase order number exists, the proper purchase order will appear.  The basic search dialog box is shown below:

Note that Basic Search looks for the internally generated number that appears at the top of the Main Purchase Order Screen.  In other words it solely for the number and disregards prefixes or suffixes.  If you need to look for the number appearing in the Alternative PO Number field, use the "General Search" field.

In the General Search field, as mentioned you can enter the Alternative PO Number. You can also enter part or all of the vendor's name.  You can even enter a vendor's state or city.  The Search Dialog Box always searches first for any words that you've entered (and disregards the purchase order number).  If there are no words entered, it will search for the indicated purchase order number.

If you have entered a word to search for, and then decide to search for a purchase order number, delete the word.  When the word area is blank, only purchase order numbers will be searched.

The search feature is not case sensitive.  If you enter "The" as the search word, it will find purchase orders with "The" or "THE."

If you are doing a word search and the purchase order that appears is not the one you want, you can repeat the search.  There are four ways to repeat the search:  1)click the "Repeat Search" button at the bottom of the purchase order screen; 2) press Ctrl+R; 3) select GO TO and REPEAT SEARCH from the Menu Bar; or 4) press the right mouse button and choose "Repeat Search" from the Speed Menu.

If want to search forward--toward more recent purchase orders--click the "Repeat Search Forward" button at the bottom of the Purchase Order Screen, press Ctrl+F, or select GO TO and REPEAT SEARCH FORWARD from the Menu Bar.  If you want to search backward--toward older purchase orders--click the "Repeat Search Back" button at the bottom of the Purchase Order Screen, press Ctrl+B, or select GO TO and REPEAT SEARCH BACKWARDS from the Menu Bar.