In the new Salesforce Winter Release, Salesforce introduced a new feature, called searchable list views. In the past, you had to use either a list view or global search, but you could not do both. So if I started looking in a list view for a lead, but couldn't find it, I would have to go to Global Search. Now, if I'm in my all Ohio leads, looking for a specific lead, Bruce, I can now find Bruce Wayne in Ohio fairly quickly.
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