Understanding the View Document Screen

The View Document screen displays the complete text of a document along with tools to navigate the document, open related documents, navigate search results, print, export, and save.

The right frame of the Document View screen displays document text. If the document was part of a set of search results, the relevant search terms will be highlighted.

Note: You have the option on all views to display or remove the display of the Best section (the most relevant section), which is displayed in green text.

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On the left sidebar there are a set of tabs. The tabs that are visible depend on if the document was part of a search result or if it was opened by browsing via the Table of Contents or from a link.

Document List tab

This tab displays the list of search result documents for your most recent query. The gold star symbols indicate the ranking in relevance: the more stars, the more relevant the document is to your search results. Clicking the title of a document will open it in the right pane.

Contents View tab

On the left sidebar there are a set of tabs, each containing information about the document titles that met your search criteria. The running header, visible in the Contents View tab, indicates the location of the document within the Table of Contents. Each entry in the running header is a link to the levels and sublevels within which the document resides.

Outline tab

The Outline tab on the left sidebar is enabled when reviewing search results for Tax Code. Click this tab to display an outline view of the current code document. Select any of the section hyperlinks to jump to that point in the document. Click the icon to expand a subsection of outline hyperlinks.

Links tab

The Links tab on the left sidebar is enabled when reviewing search results within Tax Code. Click this tab to display a list of associated documents for each Top line and Side line link type. Select the desired link type from the drop-down menu and select the document hyperlink from the list to view the document text.

The text of the document displayed may contain any of the following elements:

Reference Links

Reference links reside within the text of the document and link you to other related material. 

Hypertext Links

Previous or Next Keyword

All keywords contained within the document are highlighted . Click the navigation arrows in the View menu bar to jump to the next or previous occurrence of a keyword in the document, or to the next document where the next keyword appears.

Note that if several of your keywords are visible on your screen at one time, clicking the arrows will take you to the next or previous keyword that is not currently visible.

Alert! If a keyword(s) is part of a reference link, it will not be highlighted. Use your browser's search feature to locate these keywords.

Top Line and Side Line Links

Top line and Side line links are a series of buttons across the top or on the left margin of a document. Click any of these links to view other related source documents. These links do not appear in all documents. 

Topline and Sideline Links

The bottom of the View Document screen contains the following arrows, buttons and information.

You can filter Top Line and Side Line links by keyword.

Citator Document Court Filter

Citation documents provide a drop-down menu (at the top of the document screen) to filter any court names referenced by the document. To us this feature, select the desired court name from the drop-down list and the document will be filtered accordingly.

Deep Cite Locator

If you are browsing Code or Regs subsections, you can identify your exact location at any time. Simply hover your mouse over the nearest locator icon.

Doc navigation arrows

Document navigation arrows allow you to view the next document across sources - you don't have to return to the Source List or Document List screens to view the contents of the next source.

Click the right or left arrow to move forward and backward through the documents across all the sources.

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Back to Results Doc

Click Back to Results Doc to return to the last document viewed in the Document List. This is useful when you have linked to related materials or moved to documents that are not part of your search results, and you wish to resume viewing your results.

Prev/Next Doc in Contents

Click to view the previous or next document in the Checkpoint Table of Contents, which may not necessarily be part of your search results.

Next Document

Relevance Navigation arrows

Click the left and right arrows to navigate through the document list in order of relevance.

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Keywords

The keywords used in your search appear in the left sidebar on the Search Tools tab.

Save Search

From the Search Tools tab, click the Save or Schedule Search command to access the Save Search screen, where you can save and schedule your search to automatically run in the future.

Document Tools

The document tool menu is located at the bottom of the document view pane.

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The document tools provides options for printing, exporting, or e-mailing a complete document or selected text. You can also save a document to your My Folders list from this feature.

Click here for more information on printing, copying, or e-mailing selected text from a document.

Click here for more information on printing, exporting, or e-mailing a document.

Click here for more information on saving a document to your My Folders.

Select Open in New Window to open the document into a new window. The document window will stay open until you close it.

Results Options

These are located at the top of your screen. Click Document List or Source List to return to your search results summary.
 

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