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NCSA Mosaic Document View Window

NCSA Mosaic Document View Window

The NCSA Mosaic Document View window lets you view a document in the universe of available information on the Internet.

If you're currently using Mosaic, you are viewing this document in a Document View window. If you're not currently using Mosaic, here's what a Document View looks like when it's used to view the Mosaic demo document.

Document View Menubar

The menubar at the top of the Document View window provides program control, navigation, and document manipulation functions. It looks like this:

Documentation on each of the menus is given below:

Document View Viewing Area

Most of the Document View window is occupied by the Viewing Area (or "view", for short) -- the area of the window that displays the document and includes scrollbars to allow documents larger than the window to be displayed.

More help on the Viewing Area is here.

Bottom Control Panel

Below the Viewing Area is a small control panel with a text entry area and a row of buttons. This control panel gives quick access to NCSA Mosaic's searching capabilities and the more common commands that you may wish to access while browsing a set of documents.

The control panel looks like this:

For help on the keyword search field, see here.

For help on the control panel's buttons, see here.