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The Bar Ilan Responsa Project offers you several ways to work with previous searches. For example, you can repeat past searches by re-executing past queries (Responsa automatically saves a list of these queries).
Alternatively, you can save the search results themselves, thereby enabling you to redisplay them on screen without having to re-execute the search from scratch. Moreover, you can combine different sets of “saved search results” in various ways.
Important Note The options for working with previous searches are available only in Regular Searches and Advanced Searches.
Reusing Previous Queries
To reuse a former query in the Bar Ilan CD:
1. From the Search screen, with the Regular Search or Advanced Search option active, click Former Queries. A box will open up, listing former queries.
• If you searched for a word or group of words with vowels (Nikud), the query text will be displayed with these vowels
2. Do one of the following:
Double-click the query of your choice, or click it once, and then click OK or press ENTER.
To access queries performed during the current Responsa session, click the arrow next to the search bar. A list of former queries will appear; from it, click the query you want to perform again.
3. Click Search to perform the search.
4. If you are no longer interested in previous queries, you can delete them from the list of former queries. To do so, click each query that you want to delete, and then click Delete, or click Delete All to delete all the queries.
5. To leave the former queries box, click OK.
Working With Previous Search Results: Introduction
As indicated above, in your Bar Ilan Responsa Program you can work directly with previous search results. This option is particularly useful if:
you want to immediately redisplay previous search results, without having to re-execute a former query from scratch. This is particularly useful if you had filtered out unwanted forms in the course of a search.
you had saved particular results from a given query, and you are only interested in viewing these results
you want to combine search results from separate queries, which cannot ordinarily be included in a single query (e.g., ארץ ישראל and א"י; see above, p. 39).
you want to create your own, personal databases on topics of interest; then you can perform additional searches on these databases with Responsa.
Saving Search Results for Reuse by The Bar Ilan Responsa Project
1. If you don’t want to save all the search results, select the results which you do want to save by clicking the check boxes next to them.
2. From the File menu, click Save Search.
3. Type the name you want to assign the saved search.
4. Click OK.
• If you had searched more than one database, saving the search results will save results from all of the books and databases which you searched.
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