User Guide

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Visual Explorer Software . . . . . . . . . . 1
View items in a variety of ways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Capture Web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Organize all your items in folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Combine items into stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Add notes, highlight areas, and mark up a page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Link to other applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Fax it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
E-mail it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Use SimpleSearch to find an item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Import items from other applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Export items in other formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Use right mouse button shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Visit Visioneer’s Web site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2: Viewing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Viewing items in Desktop View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using Desktop View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Using the Command Bar in Desktop View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Viewing items in Page View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using Page View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the Command Bar in Page View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Zooming in or out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Changing between Desktop View and Page View . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Viewing items by using the application that created them . . . . . 21
Setting the Double-Click Action preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Quitting Desktop View or Page View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 3: Filing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Visual Explorer’s filing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Displaying folders and items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Adding and removing folders from Folder View . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Adding a folder to Folder View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Removing folders from Folder View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Arranging folders in Folder View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29