Use the toolbar in the top right corner of the grid to configure the way the grid presents information.
Toolbar icons
| Icon | Description |
|---|---|
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Find text in the Spotlight grid. |
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Save the Spotlight grid to a file. |
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Copy the Spotlight grid to the clipboard. Copy the whole table, the selected row, column or cell. |
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Show or hide columns and choose the order in which to display columns. |
Find text
Find text in the Spotlight grid.
| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Text to find | Enter or paste in the text you want to find. |
| Match case | Select to match the case of the text exactly. When selected a search for the string AbC will not find the string abc. |
| Match entire cell contents | Select to match the contents of the table cell exactly. When selected a search for the string Spot will not find the string Spotlight. |
| Up | Search upwards from the current location then stop. |
| Down | Search downwards from the current location then stop. |
| Search all columns | Search all columns of the table. |
| Search selected column only | Search only the highlighted column. |
| Find next | Find the next occurrence of the text in the grid. |
Note: The Find function may be of limited use in dynamic columns (Elapsed time is one example) whose values are continually updated.
Save to file
Save the Spotlight grid to a file.
Save as type
The choices include formatted text file and comma-delimited text file.
Text encoding
Select the text encoding to use when saving the file.
| Encoding | Description |
|---|---|
| ANSI | ANSI is the default choice. It supports only the character set used by Western European languages. Unsupported characters are converted to question marks. |
| UNICODE (UTF-16) | The 16-bit version of the Universal Character Set Transformation Format. This format is maintained by the Unicode Consortium http://www.unicode.org/, and provides the basis for processing, storage and interchange of text data in any language. |
| UNICODE (UTF-8) | The 8-bit version of the Universal Character Set Transformation Format. |
Copy to clipboard
Copy the Spotlight grid to the clipboard then paste from the clipboard to the desired destination – as text within a text editor.
Tip: You can select to copy the whole table, the selected row, column or cell.
Show, hide and order columns
Show or hide columns and choose the order in which to display columns.
| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Available columns | Hidden columns. |
| Selected columns | Visible columns in the order they appear in the grid. |
| Add | Adds the columns selected in Available columns to the Selected columns list. |
| Add All | Adds all columns in the Available columns list to the Selected columns list. |
| Remove | Moves the columns selected in the Selected columns list to the Available columns list. |
| Remove All | Moves all columns in the Selected columns list to the Available columns list. |
| Move Up | Moves the selected columns in the Available columns list further up the list. |
| Move Down | Moves the selected columns in the Available columns list further down the list. |
Tip: To choose multiple columns in the Available columns and Selected columns lists, use the shortcut key combinations CTRL+click or SHIFT+click.