By far, the most often used feature in Arena is the Quick Search. Quick Search gives users the ability to enter a partial first and/or partial last name and search the database for records who’s name match the criteria.
The Quick Search option is part of the left navigation panel so it is available anywhere a user may be in Arena. Once the user hits Enter or clicks the Go icon, the results are displayed in a grid.
Notice the icons in the lower right corner of the grid. These icons will appear on every grid used in Arena. The Excel icon exports the data from the grid to an Excel spreadsheet, the envelope icon lets the user create an email communication to everyone listed in the grid, and the Word icon creates mailing labels for everyone in the grid. The mailing labels will automatically combine any family members listed. For example if my wife and I were both listed in the grid, only one label would be produced with “David and Jan Turner.”
The “grayed out” lines are inactive records. Similiar to Shelby, Arena has both a record status and a member status. Record status is either Active or Inactive (if Inactive an inactive reason is required). Member Status values are configurable. We use Participant, Visitor, Attendee, and Member.
The first column in this result set (left of the photo icon column) is a column that the user can use to select some or all of the people in the list. Once they’ve selected them, they can then do a bulk update or request that the selected records be merged.
Moving to the right, you’ll notice the distance column. All addresses in Arena are stardized and geo-coded. This allows us to tell how far each person lives from the church or from a small group that may be meeting in their area.
In addition to the columns displayed, users can also use their mouse to hover over the image icon to view the person’s picture, 
or hover over the name to see even more information about the person and their family.
Once you’ve found the person you’re looking for, you click their name to display the Person Detail page (I’ll show that next).
