Searching with XPat

  1. Create a new newsgroup
  2. Name it whatever you want, but start the name with # (I.E. #foobar)
  3. Right click your new newsgroup and select 'Show search group (XPat) dialog' (See image below)
  4. Change the field to what you want to search against
  5. Enter what you want to search for in the Wildmats box
  6. Enter any remarks you want to enter for this search
  7. Click the 'Newsgroups' button, select all newsgroups you want to search, press CTRL+C, and paste into the box next to the 'Newsgroups' button
  8. Click 'Save & close' to save your search
  9. To actually search, right click on #Foo and select 'Get new headers'. If you don't want to see this dialog every time, uncheck 'Show the dialog on every invoke'
Search dialog

That's it! As the search progresses, any headers matching your search will be shown in the #Foo group. Click the > arrow to continue

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