Is there a quick way of identifying 'missing files'

Occasionally when you try to play a song you get a message saying that Itunes can't find the file together with an invitation for you to locate it yourself. After you locate it you get another message asking you if you want ITunes to locate other missing files - and it tells you how many missing files there are. ITunes invariably then locates some of the other missing files but usually not all of them. i can't find a way of viewing the songs that are "missing" other than by scrolling through the whole list looking for the identification marker at the far left.

Thanks for your response but because of the way in which my music files are stored; on an external drive rather than in the Itunes folder, Doug's scripts don't work for me - had a series of e mail exchanges with him regarding embedding artwork a while ago. I just can't understand why, when ITunes can identify and tell you in a message how many missing tracks there are, it doesn't provide a way of sorting the library to show the missing tracks together.
Regards
John

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