ISYS Browse Window

You've performed a search, found a document and opened it in the ISYS Browse window. What are you going to do next?

Working with documents

ISYS browser has a number of tools to help you make the most of your documents. Most of these are accessible via the buttons on the toolbar. There are options such as copying, gathering, E-mailing, printing, and querying which we will be looking at in this season's newsletter.

How do I find the ISYS Browse window?

Perform a query in ISYS Query, once you have found the files you require, you can view them using the ISYS browser without needing to actually open the associated program. Either:
· Double-click on the required file or
· Press [ENTER] or [RETURN] on your keyboard when the required file is highlighted.
The file will open in the document browser with the hits highlighted.

Copying, gathering, E-mailing, printing, faxing and querying

These buttons allow you to perform a number of functions once you have selected text in the ISYS Browser. These buttons are only available when text is selected. Since the toolbar is customizable, you may not have all of these present. These buttons give you quick and easy access to features that are also found in the menus.

To utilize the selected text functions, first highlight the text you want, and then select the button for the function you want. ISYS will then use the highlighted text for the function your selected.

Copy text to the Clipboard

To copy selected text to the Windows clipboard select the 'Clipboard' button, choose 'Copy' from the 'Edit' menu or press CTRL-C on your keyboard. You can then paste the text into another application using its normal pasting method, usually CTRL-V. Please see your Windows or application manuals for more information about the Clipboard.

Gather text to the Notepad

To copy selected text to the Windows Notepad, click once on the 'Notepad' button, choose 'Gather to Notepad' from 'Edit' menu or press CTRL-N on your keyboard.

If Notepad is not already open an instance will be started and ISYS will copy the selected text into it. Unlike the Clipboard, which replaces text every time you paste into it, the Gather method allows you to compile many different selections together in one text file. Depending on how your Preferences are configured, this feature may use Windows Write instead of Notepad.

E-mail selected text

To send the selected text through your current E-mail program, click once on the 'E-mail' button, choose 'Send' from the 'Edit' menu or press CTRL-S on your keyboard. The E-mail program will display a dialog box into which you can enter the appropriate recipient information. This button is not available if you do not have a compatible E-mail application.

Print selected text

To send the selected text to the printer, click once on the 'Print' button or select 'Print' from the 'Edit' menu. This function will only print the text selected, not the entire document. To print the complete contents of the document, select the 'File' menu, then the 'Print file'.

Perform another query

To perform another ISYS Query with the selected text as the search term, click once on the 'Query' button or select 'Exact Search' from the 'Edit' menu. Since ISYS performs an exact search on the text you have highlighted, it is best to select simple words or phrases to get results.

Note that as ISYS interprets the highlighted text exactly, if you highlighted the words multimedia in nature, ISYS would consider the word in to mean the operator IN and search for the word multimedia in the paragraph labeled nature. Similarly, if you highlighted fear and loathing ISYS would search for documents that contain both the words fear AND loathing.

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