Starting a search
You can search for text strings in the Workbench as follows:
- In the Workbench toolbar, click the Search button
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- In the Search Expression field, type in: it.
The combo box for the Search Expression field also lets you select from a list of recently performed searches.

- You can select or deselect the Case sensitive check box depending on whether or not you want to perform a case sensitive or insensitive search.
We want to search for lowercase "it" so check the Case sensitive box.
- In the File name patterns field you can specify the kinds of files to include in your search.
Click Browse... to open the Type Selection Dialog. This dialog provides you with a quick way to select from a list of registered extensions. 
For the moment we will confine our search to .txt files. Ensure .txt is checked and click OK.
- In the Scope field you can specify the files and folders to include in the search. The choices are: the entire workspace, the currently selected resources in the Workbench, or a working set which is a named, customized group of files and folders. Leave the scope as workspace.
- The Customize button allows you to choose what kinds of searches are available in the dialog. This setting may be left unchanged.
- Click Search.
Note that you can click Cancel to cancel the search while it is in progress and that the Search dialog shows the progress of the search. 
- Observe that the Search view displays:

In the next section we will learn how to work with the Search view.
The Search view
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