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Two pages help you work across Epics: `Report > Search reports`, and `Report usage`, under
`Settings`. This appears only when it is turned on for your organisation.

## Search the reports

`Search reports` finds where something was said across every finalised quarter you can read, and
your own Epic at any stage. It covers report narrative, partner returns, decisions, change requests,
follow-up actions and the strategy wording. It does not cover attachments, email or people's names.

1. Select `Report > Search reports`.
2. Type a phrase, a project name or a sub-initiative code.
3. Under `What to search`, choose `Everything I can read`, or `The lessons question only` to read
   what other Epics learned side by side.
4. Select `Search`, then `Open` a result.

If a search finds too much, narrow the wording. A search that was refused or failed says so: it is
not an empty result.

## Report usage

`Settings > Report usage` counts how the quarterly reports are used, overall and Epic by Epic,
between a `From` and a `To` date: quarters opened, reports finalised, staff and co-funder readers,
partner versions released, downloads and decisions carried. It counts only. Nobody is named, and an
Epic's own Captain is not counted as a reader.

## See also

- [Quarterly cycles and returns](quarterly-cycles-and-returns.md)
- [Captain's report](captains-report.md)