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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 reside within the text of the document and link you to other related material.
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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 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Click to view the previous or next document in the Checkpoint Table of Contents, which may not necessarily be part of your search results.
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Click the left and right arrows to navigate through the document list in order of relevance.
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The keywords used in your search appear in the left sidebar on the Search Tools tab.
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.
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.
These are located at the top of your screen. Click Document List
or Source List to return to your search results summary.