Getting Started

There are three highlighter icons in the toolbar to let you highlight text in different colors.

Try It Out

1. Click the down arrow next to the highlighter icon
2. Select Change Marker Color
3. Choose a color and click OK
4. Select some text and then click on the highlighter icon

Create a note by clicking the icon.

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1. Create a note
2. Add your text
3. Save your changes
4. Delete a note

Click theicon to create a bookmark.

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1. Add a bookmark
2. Name the bookmark
3. Update an existing bookmark

If you download a dictionary from the bookstore, you can look up definitions while you study.

Try It Out

1. Click on a word
2. Book > Look Up This Word in Dictionary
3. Select a dictionary

An exact match search will look for words in the exact order you type them in.

Try it Out

1. Use "double quotes" around your search terms.
2. Try your search again, but without double quotes

A wildcard stands in place of one or more characters to expand your search results.

Try it Out

1. Search with * replacing letters at the beginning of a word.
2. Go to Analyze > Search Results Reports > Search Vocabulary Report to see a list of search results.
3. Search with * replacing an entire word

Table of Contents bounds will limit your search within a certain section of your text.

Try it Out

1. Bounds > Table of Contents Bounds
2. Select chapters or sections
3. Press OK
4. Do a search

Sorting

When sorting the WordWheel by frequency, you can see what words occur most frequently.

1. Click on the column header Frequency once to see the most frequent words
2. Click on the column header Frequency a second time to see the least frequent words

Filtering

When filtering the WordWheel by word type, you can limit the WordWheel to only display certain words.

For example, you can filter out punctuation:

1. Click on the down arrow next to Filter
2. Select Word-type
3. Check the box Normal text
4. Make sure that All Forms and Ignore Type are not selected

The Search Vocabulary report is used to generate a WordWheel displaying the words you search and their frequency

This report is most useful when searching for a combination of a word and wildcard (*)

Try it Out

1. Search "* [word]"
2. Analyze > Search Results Reports > Search Vocabulary

The report will display all results for any word that appears immediately before [word].

Neighbors (collocates) are words surrounding a search term.

Neighboring words, especially ones that occur commonly with your search term, can provide new insights in word usage by helping you find patterns.

Try it Out

1. Do a search
2. Click Analyze > Search Results Reports > Neighborhood (Collocation)
3. Start in the Neighbors (Collocates)

This will allow you to study the words that neighbor your search term.

4. Click the Neighborhoods (KWIC)

This will allow you to analyze your neighbors in context of their sentences.

The Vocabulary Dispersion report displays the frequency of words in your text and indicates how equally distributed a word is.

In the Vocabulary dispersion data section, you will see a visual representation of the dispersion of each word.

Try it Out

1. Click Analyze > Book Reports > Vocabulary Dispersion Report
2. Take a look at the Vocabulary dispersion data section to find patterns in frequency and dispersion

The Phrase Compare Report compares recurring phrases in one or more texts based on n-grams.

An n-gram is a sequence of n items (words or symbols) from a given sequence of text or speech. For example, "I want to talk to you" is a phrase that is 6 n-grams long.

You can analyze the n-grams of one book, compare the n-grams between two sections of one book, or compare the n-grams between two books.

Try it Out

Compare the n-grams between different sections of one book.

1. Click Analyze > Book Reports > Phrase Compare (N-grams)
2. Select a book and search bounds.
3. Select the max Phrase length
4. In the Phrases menu, select 1 > 2
5. Click Compare