Viewing documents

The document viewer is used to display both the special Cochrane documents stored in the system, such as reviews, and documents generated by the system, such as reports.

When viewing a document, the icons at the top of the module allow you to: download a copy (in HTML or pdf) to your own computer, print the document, and choose between single or double line spacing.

• Tip: Place your cursor over each icon to see what it does.

When viewing special Cochrane documents, you have additional options based on the document type:

• When viewing Reviews and Modules, the Contents pull-down menu in the upper right corner of the viewer allows you to navigate to specific sections of the document.

• When viewing Reviews, there is also a pull-down menu that allows you to choose between:

• RevMan View: Shows all information in the review (except graphs).

• RevMan + Graphs View:: Shows all information in the review, with all graphs at the end.

• RevMan Notes View: Like RevMan view, but also shows all notes within the text.  

• Graph View: Allows you to choose  which graphs to view.

• Tip: A number of other view option are available for reviews in addition to the document viewer, see Viewing reviews.

To open a review document in the View mode

1. Locate the review you want to view (e.g., with Quick Search).

2. Right-click the review and choose View > Latest Version.

To download a document

1. Click  to save in HTML  format or to save in pdf format.

To print a document

1. Click the button.

To change the line spacing

1. Click the button.

To find text in a document

You can use your browser's Find function to locate a string of text in the document you are viewing.

1. Press Ctrl-F to open the browser' Find function.

2. Tip: If you are not looking for text within a specific document, but instead want to find documents that contain the phrase, you can use Advanced Search to do this.