The Clear Form button is used to blank out the form.  It's a "clever" button with a few different uses, but when clicked three times, it completely wipes the form.  With a blank form, it is possible to search the contacts database using single or multiple criteria. For example, you could search for all contacts involving homework awards provided to year 8 students. Or you could find all contacts entered by a specific staff member, or all contacts involving one particular student.

In the above example, we will find all contact records that belong to anyone with a surname starting with "brown". This will, in this case, give us a list of all contact records associated with our friend, Phillip Brown.  When the user has set all criteria for a search, the Search Using Selected Field(s) button is clicked. Notice that searches are not case-sensitive.

To continue this tour, please click on the Search Using Selected Field(s) button above
(it's at the bottom-middle of the form).