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                        <p>
                           You can search for files with Bridge
using multiple combinations of search criteria. You can save your
search criteria as a <dfn class="term">collection</dfn>, so that you can perform the
same search again later.</p>

                        <p>For a video on searching for files
with Bridge, see <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/vid0096" target="_blank">www.adobe.com/go/vid0096</a>.</p>

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                                 Choose Edit&#160;&gt; Find.</span></li>
<li><span>Choose a folder in which to search from the Look In menu.</span></li>
<li><span>Choose search criteria by selecting options and limiters
from the Criteria menus. Enter search text in the text box on the
right. </span></li>
<li><span>To add search criteria, click the plus sign (+). To remove
search criteria, click the minus sign (-).</span></li>
<li><span>Choose an option from the Match menu to specify whether
any or all criteria must be met.</span></li>
<li><span>If you’re searching a Version&#160;Cue project, do
any of the following:</span><ul><li>
                                    <p>Choose an option from the Limit To menu
to limit search results.</p>

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                                    <p>Choose an option from the Rank menu. </p>

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data is supplied by Digital Asset Management (DAM) providers. If
you’re searching a project without rank data, this menu will not
appear.</div>

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                                    <p>Choose an order for the search results from the
Order menu.</p>

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                                    <p>Select Search All Versions Of A File to include
past and current versions of Version&#160;Cue files in the search.</p>

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                                    <p>Select Start From Current Folder to search an entire
Version&#160;Cue project, even if you chose a subfolder of the
project in step&#160;2.</p>

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                                    <p>Select Search In Deleted Files to search files deleted
from a Version&#160;Cue project.</p>

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<li><span>(Optional) Select Include All Subfolders to expand the
search to any subfolders in the source folder.</span></li>
<li><span>(Optional) Select Include Non-Indexed Files to specify
that Bridge search uncached as well as cached files (by default,
Bridge searches only folders that it has cached—that is, folders
that you have already opened in Bridge).</span></li>
<li><span>(Optional) To save the search criteria, click Save As
Collection. In the Save Collection dialog box, specify a name and
location for the collection, and then click Save. To specify that
Bridge applies the collection to the currently viewed folder, select
Start Search From Current Folder (if you don’t select this option, Bridge
will use the folder you specified when you created the collection).
To specify that a shortcut to the collection be placed in the Bridge
Favorites panel, select Add To Favorites.</span></li>
<li><span>Click Find. </span></li>
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                              A <em>collection</em> is a saved search.
When you open a collection, you run the search again in the location
you specified when you created the collection.</p>

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                                 <img src="images/dingbat.png" />&#160;Navigate to the location in which you saved the
collection, and double-click the collection.</span></div>

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                           <p>A new Bridge window appears containing the results of
the search.</p>

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                              <img src="images/tip_help.png" />By default, if you select a file
in a collection, the file is listed as being located in the collection
folder. To navigate to the folder in which the file is actually
located, choose File&#160;&gt; Reveal In Bridge.</div>
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