The results grid lets you see exactly what Symbol Search has found and correct it without repeatedly moving the sensitivity slider. The lowest-confidence matches are shown first, making incorrect results easier to spot.

This is a detailed part of Symbol Search. It applies when you are adding or editing a symbol.

Reading the Results

Included and Excluded Grid Squares

Symbol Search results showing excluded grid squares in red followed by included grid squares in green

  • Green: the grid square is included in the current symbol.
  • Red: the grid square has been excluded from the symbol.
  • Percentage: how closely that grid square matches the current icon or colour search.
  • Order: the weakest matches appear first. Stronger matches follow, so the uncertain boundary is visible near the start of the list.

Exclude a Group with One Selection

  1. Start at the beginning of the results and look for the lowest-confidence grid square that you still consider a correct match.
  2. Select that grid square. Every weaker result before it turns red, while the selected result and all stronger matches remain green.
  3. If the split is wrong, select the same boundary grid square again. The excluded group is restored.
  4. After creating the split, select individual grid squares to switch them between included and excluded. This is useful when an isolated result does not follow the general percentage order.

The starting grid square is protected. The grid square used to begin a new symbol cannot be excluded, because Markup needs one confirmed example of the symbol.

How Your Choices Affect Future Searches

Without a second filter
Markup uses the boundary between the weakest result you kept and the strongest result you rejected to calculate a practical saved sensitivity. This lets you correct the results directly instead of guessing an exact slider value.
With an icon or colour filter
The two slider values remain the saved search settings. You can still include or exclude individual grid squares, but Markup cannot infer two separate sensitivities from a single red-and-green boundary.
Only one result on the page
A single example may show as a 100% match, but that does not mean every copy on another page will also be 100%. Markup combines the accepted match with your current sensitivity rather than saving an unnecessarily strict 100% threshold.
Searching other pages
For a new symbol, use Apply to all pages if you want the search to spread immediately. When editing an existing symbol, adjust the search and use Rescan All Pages to apply it elsewhere.

When One Search Is Not Enough

A strict search can miss copies that are faint, distorted or crossed by backstitch. You do not have to force one very relaxed search to accept every variation.

  1. Keep the first search clean and save the matches you trust.
  2. When you later find a missed variation, add it as another symbol and search for that version.
  3. Use Merge Symbols to combine the confirmed variations into one master symbol. Their assigned grid squares and counts are brought together.

This approach is often safer than relaxing one search until it starts accepting genuinely different symbols.

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