the new txdot online manuals system
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The TxDOT Online Manuals System
Finding InformationEfficiently and Accurately
© 2012 by Texas Department of Transportation
You can find information in the manuals system in a number of ways.
Start by opening the TxDOT home page and clicking TxDOT Library.
Click the Manuals link.
Click the Manuals link.
Browse an alphabetical list of manuals
browse for manuals categorized by their collections
or browse for manuals revised in the past 90 days.
You can also search for a word or phrase. This search box appears
on every page.
We’ll discuss using the search feature in detail later in the presentation.
When opening a manual, you may choose an HTML format. . .
or a PDF format.
Open a manual.
From a manual’s title page, you’ll find
a link to a printer-friendly PDF
an expandable table of
contents
and “breadcrumbs,” or text that maps yourlocation in the site.
Expand the chapters in the table of contents to produce sections.
Expand the sections to produce subsections.
Open a page in a manual by clicking a heading title in the TOC.
Some icons appear to help you get around.
home icon
home icon
navigation arrows
navigation arrows
Use the scrollbars to adjust the content and the page as needed.
Maximize an image by clicking it. Print it using
the right-click menu.
Text associated with the latest revision is
highlighted in yellow.
Each Web page consists of one sectionin a manual.
Bookmark any heading by clicking it in the TOC to produce the ID number. . .
and adding it to your favorites.
Searching for a Word or Phrase
When you’re inside a manual, you may search just that manual. . .
or search all manuals on the site.
For this example, we’ll search across all manuals for guidelines used whenmowing invasive species of plants.
Three entries are returned, in order of their relevance.
% Relevance
An entry includes the following:
the URLof the page
a short blurb describing a page result
and the name of the manual and the
relevant section.
Click here to view the results
page with search terms highlighted
in blue.
The top of the page displays the number of hits a term or phrase receives.
Here, you can further refine how terms are displayed in the section.
Click an arrow bracketing a term to move to the next or previous term.
Jump to the home page for two additional options for searching the system.
Search a manual collection
or search manuals revised in the
past 90 days.
Before using search, visit Help to optimize your use of search terms.
There, you’ll discover how to use quotes, commas, case, plus/minus signs,
and Boolean operators to hone your search.
Visit Advanced Help to search various manual
components and for other options.
Printing a Manual
Print a manual from its PDF. A link is available on the HTML title page.
Print the PDF from the menu bar (File > Print).
Specify the page range for
printing.
Alternately, right-click a bookmark in the table of contents to print the entire manual or a
chapter, section, or subsection.
You may also print an HTML section of a manual by clicking File > Print.
The table of contents will not appear in the
hard copy.
Print a portion of an HTMLpage by highlightingthe text and clicking
File > Print > Selection.
We hope that you’ll find the TxDOT Online Manuals System
helpful and easy to use.
External Site URL:http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/manuals/
This presentation will repeat.
Please contact TxDOT’s Online Manuals group with questions
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