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39. Find Items Within a Date Range

Before You Begin

24 About Organizing Items

33 About Finding Items in the Catalog

See Also

18 Sort Items

23 Change Image Date and Time

38 Find Items with the Same Date

In 24 About Organizing Items, you learned about the Timeline, which is a graph that appears above the photo well. On the Timeline are bars representing how many items in the catalog originated in various months. Specifically, this is the number of items whose file dates (not import date or modified date) fall within that month. You can see which month represents the largest number of media files by looking for the tallest bar on the Timeline. By clicking a bar, you can instantly jump to that month of items in the catalog. Notice that the Timeline does not limit the display of items when you simply click a particular bar; however, the Timeline can be used to display only those items that fall within a particular date range if you like.

At either end of the Timeline are scroll arrows; use these arrows to scroll through the years. Next to the scroll arrows are range markers, which mark the range of file dates associated with the items currently displayed in the photo well. By dragging these range markers inward, you can limit the number of items displayed in the photo well (only items whose file dates fall between the dates represented by the range markers on the Timeline are displayed in the photo well). The range markers on the Timeline enable you to limit the display range to specific months. You can limit this range even further, to specific days, by using the Set Date Range dialog box as discussed in this task.

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With the Timeline, you can narrow an existing search to display only items that fall between particular dates. For example, after searching for items in your Scrapbook collection, you can limit the display for only those Scrapbook items that fall within specific dates.

NOTE

To use the Set Date Range dialog box to limit the items shown in the photo well, you do not have to display the Timeline first. However, if you want to drag the range markers on the Timeline to limit the items shown, display the Timeline if needed by choosing View, Timeline.

1.	Choose Find, Set Date Range In the Organizer, select Find, Set Date Range from the menu bar. The Set Date Range dialog box opens.
2.	Set Start Date Set the Start Date by typing the Year and selecting the Month and Day from the drop-down lists.
3.	Set End Date and Click OK Set the End Date by typing the Year and selecting the Month and Day from the drop-down lists. Click OK to display only items that have file dates between and including these two dates.
4.	View the Result In a moment, the photo well displays only items created during the range you selected. The range markers on the Timeline are also adjusted. ToolTips appear next to the range markers, displaying the start and end dates you selected. Notice also that the range of dates for items not currently being shown appears grayed out on the Timeline and that the valid date range is in full color. NOTE To reset the Timeline so that all items in the catalog are displayed, select Find, Clear Date Range.