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MacRepertory Tips

 May 2010 Tip of the Month - Comparing Remedies in MacRepertory

 April 2010 Tip of the Month - Family search in MacRepertory

 High Speed Rubrics
Once you are in a section of the repertory highlight the rubric of your choice by typing it or clicking it and press the ENTER (Win) or RETURN (Mac) key to add a rubric into a Rubrics Clipboard. It will automatically enter into the highlighted clipboard.

 Delete Rubrics Instantly
Do you want to delete a rubric from a Graph rather than go to the Rubrics Clipboard? Press the Alt/Option key and click the offending rubric to remove.

 Deleting Rubric Effortlessly
Would you like to delete a rubric automatically when moving it from one clipboard to another? Press the Alt/Option key when dragging rubrics to another clipboard and the rubrics in the original clipboard are deleted.

 Instant Confirmations
Press the question mark key when you are in any Graph Window and Confirmatories opens to the first remedy in your graph. Click the blue arrows to automatically scroll through the remedies in your graph. Did you know that Confirmatories was written by a group of homeopaths including George Guess, David Warkentin and Peter Borregard? They provide helpful keynote reminders to jog your memory when you are at the comparative Materia Medica stage of analyzing a case.

 MacRepertory Keyboard Shortcuts
Did you know that there are keyboard shortcuts for many features and functions in your MacRepertory program? To see some of them just view each of the menus. For example, in your repertory you can toggle between displaying the main rubrics and displaying the main- and sub-rubrics by typing Control/Cmd + Y. In each of these windows press the space bar to see the remedies.

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ReferenceWorks Tips

 Exact Word Search
Do you sometimes want to search for an exact word - instead of getting references to a bunch of similar words? Just press the exclamation mark key after a word to limit your search to that word.

 Limiting a search to a section
This is one of the most useful limit features in ReferenceWorks. Say you want to search for the word affectionate but don't want all references in various and sundry physical sections to affections. In order to avoid the extra references type an exclamation mark after the word affectionate! Then click the list icon(2nd down in the icon palette). Click the field under the title bar and select Section.

Click Mind to select it (and deselect all other sections). Press the Shift key and click General, Cases and Provings in the Generalities section. Now go back to your Phrase Window and Search.

Many Materia Medica (for example, Kent's Lectures) are not organized by section headings. Their descriptions are organized in ReferenceWorks under General Section only. Any limit that does not select also the General Section may miss out a wealth of important references.

 Spot the Cuff
Did you Know that when you limit a search (to a section, book or remedy) a cufflink appears on the wrist of the phrase icon in your Phrase Window? The more limits, the more cufflinks!

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