Creating Research Reports

Research Organizer lets you create a formatted report from your outlined Notes. The report contains all text and image Notes within a project, and adds citations as end notes (a type of bibliography). Each text Note is a paragraph, and each Note title is a paragraph heading.

To preview a report:

  1. Open Research Organizer and click on your top-level project folder in the upper-left Projects pane.

  2. Choose Report View [] from the Research Organizer toolbar.

  3. Your Notes are formatted sequentially, as you have arranged them, in paragraphs. Footnotes at the end of paragraphs link to End Notes at the end of the document. You can print or export this report.

 

Tip: Jump to a paragraph in the Report View by clicking a Note card in the left-hand Project Organizer. The report scrolls to that Note's position in the report.

To print a report:

  1. Select the top-level project folder, then click [] or open the File menu and select Print Report.

  2. In the pop-up dialog box, click on the format you prefer.

  3. Click OK to print.  

  4. The report will open in your default Web browser. Use your browser's print function to print the report.  

 

Tip: Windows 98 users who print an HTML report in the 'Elegant' layout may experience some formatting problems with the printout. If you are experiencing such formatting problems, use the 'Simple' layout instead.

 

To export a report to HTML (for a Web site):

  1. Select the top-level project folder, open the File menu, and select Export and HTML Report.

  2. In the pop-up dialog box, click on the format you prefer.

  3. Click OK. The result is a folder (with the same name as your project) that contains one index.html file and a folder of images. Use this type of export to view your Notes in a Web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Safari, or Netscape) and to import them as formatted text and pictures into any application that reads HTML.

To export a report to plain text:

  1. Select the top-level project folder, then open the File menu and select Export and Plain Text.

  2. In the Export dialog box, browse to a location on your hard drive where you want to save the file.

  3. Type a file name for the file. If you don't enter an extension, ".text" is added to the file name. For best results, type in ".txt" after the name. Ignore the "Save as type" selectionùonly ASCII text (.txt) is available.

  4. Click Save. The result is a single text file in the location you selected. You can open it using Windows Notepad, TextEdit, or other applications that read text files.

 

Tip: A report exported to Plain Text does not include any image notes, but you can export your images separately to a folder on your hard drive. See Working with Images & Media.