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After you've done a search, you'll get a screen listing 25 stories or documents containing your search words, along with basic information about each document and a very short excerpt from the area of the document where your keywords appeared.

By default you should see the documents in the Expanded List view (to verify this check the Show pull-down menu at the top).

To view the next 25 stories or documents on the list, click on the navigation buttons or numbers at the bottom of the list.

Sorting

You can sort your results in three ways by clicking on the Sort pull-down menu toward the top:

• Newest to Oldest - newest documents at the top, oldest at the bottom
• Oldest to Newest - oldest documents at the top, newest at the bottom
• Relevance - a ranking based on how prominently or frequently your keywords appeared in a document

Viewing the Full Document

To see the full text of a story or document, just click on its highlighted title.

Your search words will be highlighted in bold in the story or document.

Use the scroll bar on the right to scroll down through the entire story or document.

To return to the list of retrieved stories, look above the story list for the heading for Show, click on the pull-down menu next to that, and select Expanded List.

Going Directly to the Section of Story with your Keywords

From the Expanded List view, you also can go directly to the section of a story or document that has your keywords.

To do this look for the highlighted links for your keywords, which will be listed under the main title of each story or document.

Click on one of the highlighted keywords to go directly to the section of a story or document in which your keyword appears.

To return to the list of retrieved stories, look above the story list for the heading for Show, click on the pull-down menu next to that, and select Expanded List.

Other Views of Stories or Documents

You can select among several different ways of viewing the list of retrieved stories and toggle back and forth between the various views.

To change the story views, look above the story list for the heading:

Show
And click on the pull-down menu next to that.
You'll have several options:

• Full Document or Full with Indexing - to view the full text of the next story or document.
• KWIC - to view an excerpt of the story with about 20 words on either side of your keywords. This is useful if you want to just quickly scan the story to see if has the particular information you're looking for.
• Custom - to pick specific segments of a story and just display those on the screen.
• List - to see the stories or documents as a simple list, with very little information displayed on each entry. This is good for very quick scanning of the list of retrieved stories.
• Expanded List - to see the stories or documents as a list, with summary information displayed on each entry and a very short excerpt from the area of the document where your keywords appeared.

Thus you can use the Show options to move between different ways of displaying the stories or documents retrieved in your search, so you can zero in on the ones that are most relevant.