This is the window to which searching confines itself if Search Active File is checked. You can enlarge the scope of the Find operation to include all document windows, by choosing Search All Open Files . For purposes of searching All Open Files , a macro or glossary file, or the Catalog window, or the Character Set, or the Clipboard window, is not a file like a document file even if its window is open.
All button can have effects in all windows at once.
Here is how to make a search list directly. The moment you start putting files on the search list, Nisus switches its search scope to Search Search List . In the Catalog window you can see the contents of only one folder at a time, but there is no law saying that files in the search list cannot come from different folders. Unfortunately, this means that it can be rather difficult to check the search list to see what's on it, since, other than looking through various folders by way of the Catalog window, Nisus provides no direct way of examining the current search list. Running this macro puts the current search list onto the current clipboard, where you can look at it.