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- Greetings.
- Here are some hints about using the Mini-Omnipedia:
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- 1. Basic Procedures
- 2. Searching for Entries or Words
- 3. Hyperlinks
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- 1. Basic Procedures_______________________________
-
- > Click the special Alphabet Selector buttons which allow you to jump to
- that part of the Encyclopedia's index. For example, if you click
- on "K" you will be jumped to the K portion of the Encyclopedia. Once
- there, you can scroll through the index in either direction.
-
- > Click on an Entry Name in the index field to display its text and
- any media. As the entry displays, the program interprets its
- hyperlinks and other styling, and transforms the text on-screen.
-
- > Click on NEXT or PREVIOUS to see the next or previous entry in
- the index of the Mode you are currently viewing. Click on BACK to
- re-trace your steps entry-by-entry.
-
- You may also click on words in the text display field to jump to
- related information:
- > Bold text represents a hyperlink to another Encyclopedia entry.
- > Most any other word, if a noun: triggers an automatic full-text
- search. Your search results will show up in the Found Entries mode.
- If you have the Find Strip open, you can see the Input Field update
- with whatever word(s) you have clicked.
-
- > Click on FIND to open the Find Strip. Type into the Input Field
- any word you wish. Anytime you pause typing for one second, the index will
- jump to a location that nearly matches what you have typed. Then you can use
- the index to select the exact entry you were looking for; or you can
- continue typing and click SEARCH.
-
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- 2. Searching for Entries or Words_____________________
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- If you wish to search for primary information about a subject, do an
- ENTRY search. That will find a single entry on the given subject.
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- About Entries:
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- This demo Omnipedia contains four primary types of Encyclopedia entries:
- names, places, things,and events
- Entries you may see in Found Entries also exist in the Encyclopedia,
- but are merely grouped together here for your searching convenience.
-
- A WORD search automatically creates a collection of entries which
- contain that word anywhere in their text. It then takes you to
- FOUND ENTRIES mode, where that collection is displayed.
-
- > Click on almost any noun in the text of an entry. (If the word is
- part of a hyperlink, however, you will initiate an Entry search
- instead.) The program will try to find other entries within the
- mode you are currently viewing which contain that word. This collection
- of found entries will be remembered by the program until you do another
- word search.
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- 3. Hyperlinks_____________________________________
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- You may jump around freely among the different modes in the Mini-
- Omnipedia. As you are reading you may encounter a name which sparks
- your curiosity. Very often you can simply click on the text you are
- reading to link to additional information. Then click BACK to return
- to the screen you had been reading.
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- Any word or phrase in bold text in the Mini-Omnipedia is a hyperlink to
- an individual encyclopedia entry. (The program is smart enough to
- adjust certain hyperlink phrases, such as names, to make an exact
- match with the index. Most of the time it is successful at this,
- sometimes it isn't.)