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To read headlines, select one or more bookmark in the list or select a folder. The headlines available for the selection will be displayed in the table at the top of the main window. You can quickly tell which headlines have been read and which ones are unread. When an headline has been read, the read icon will be displayed before the headline title. If the headline hasn't been read, the unread icon will be displayed. Unread headlines have also their title displayed in bold in the list, while unread ones have their title displayed in regular style. You can then select a headline in the table to see the detail in the view below the headline table. Headlines in the table are sorted by their publication date, from the most recent to the oldest headline. You can change the sort order by clicking on the table headers and the list of headlines will be sorted according to your selection. When accessing the detail of a headline, you have to choice of displaying its textual representation or access the HTML representation for that headline directly from the web site that provides it.

The various versions of the RSS specification usually call for a description that is 255 characters or less. All the text of an headline might not be completely displayed if the description is truncated to 255 characters. Some sites will ignore this specification and will sometimes have more than 255 characters for their headline details. Some will even mix text and HTML tags and even pictures. Sometimes, the best way to access the detail of an headline is to choose its HTML representation. Strider will then download the HTML representation from the site providing the headline and the HTML information will be displayed in the headline detail view, under the headline table. You can also press the space bar at anytime to display the next unread headline, or click the Next Headline button in the toolbar or choose Next Unread Headline from the News menu. To jump to the next bookmark with unread headlines, without selecting an headline, click the Next Unread Bookmark button in the toolbar or choose Next Unread Bookmark from the News menu.

When you're done examining the headlines and don't want to select all of them one by one, click the Mark Bookmark Read button in the toolbar or choose Mark Selected Bookmarks > Read from the News menu.