The Search Results Screen – Abstract Screen

 

 

Results list window

This window displays the number of search results found in all of the databases.

Select the required database and press OK to display results.

 

The search results of a single database are presented on this screen. The screen is divided into two: sources and abstracts. The dividing line between both parts of the screen can be moved to the left or to the right.

One can scroll through each section with the Up, Down, PgDn, and PgUp arrows, or by moving the scroll box at the right side of the window with the mouse.

 

The source window displays a list of all search results. The abstracts window displays the source and several lines of surrounding text for each search result.

Double-clicking on a source in the source window will bring up the abstract window.

Double-clicking on a line of text in the abstract window will open a full text window that contains the entire chapter or section. The source in the abstract window will be marked with the word "Displayed", indicating that this source has been displayed for full screen viewing.

Clicking once on the source line above a text in the abstracts window selects the entire present text for printing or for copying to a word processor.

Right-clicking on a source in the abstract window opens a contextual menu allowing selected text to be saved to the clipboard. The word "Marked" appears above the text to indicate this.

 

Complete text window

This window shows the entire chapter or section in which the search word occurs, with all the search results appearing in a different color from the surrounding text. You can jump to the next search result by pressing on the space bar.

 

The entire section can be printed by clicking on the printer icon or by pressing CTRL-P, saved as a RTF or text file, or copied to the clipboard in a DavkaWriter, Dagesh Pro, Word or Wordpad file format, by selecting the desired option from the File menu.

 To save only part of the section, place the mouse at the beginning of the text, and click-drag to the end of the desired text. Then press CTRL + C to copy the text to the clipboard with predetermined attributes or CTRL + B to copy the text as Simple Text. You can then paste the text in a file of a word processor program.  

 

Pressing SHIFT + F2 will tile the windows on the screen so one window will not cover up another.

 

To perform a new search, press F3 again.

 

Only 500 results are displayed at one time. Double clicking on a source in the source window scrolls the texts displayed in the abstracts window to the required source. Pressing the 500+ button advances the display to the next 500 sources; pressing the -500 button scrolls back to the previous 500 finds.

 

To add a line of text to every search result, click on the Extensive context button above the texts. To subtract a line of text from every search result, click on the Reduced context button. The abstract display may be enlarged up to 8 lines of text per abstract.

 

Click on Book + or Book - buttons, or select Next database or Previous database from Search menu to display search results from the previous or next database.

 

Each search result in the Source window is numbered. You can jump to a specific search result by typing its number and clicking on the Go to line button. Scrolling down the results list to the desired number, e.g. 90, and double-clicking on that result on the right window scrolls the abstracts window so that source 90 will display at the top of the window.

 

The font size can be changed on the right edge of the tool bar. (Fonts can be changed through View ® Options).

 

 

Merge

In the abstracts window, each result is displayed with a line of text. Clicking the Merge button will merge all entries from the same paragraph, and display one line only from each paragraph/source. For example, if a search word appears several times in the same chapter/article, only one line will be displayed for that chapter, and upon clicking on that line, the entire chapter will be displayed with all appearances of the search word highlighted in a different color.

 

Locating search words in complete text window: When searching for a word with multiple appearances in the open text, press the space bar to skip from one appearance to the next.

 

 

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