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 w
Double-clicking
on a line of text in the abstract window w
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 f
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 f
Pressing
SHIFT + F2 w
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 w
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 w
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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