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Become familiar with these terms to get the most out of working with DEVONsphere Express. User interface: Action menu: A menu with additional options. Usually pops up when you click a gear-shaped icon. Read more... Context menu: The menu that appears when you Control-click something; the context menu gives you access to frequently used commands that deal directly with the clicked object. Menu extra: A background application that manifests in a tiny icon located at the right-hand side of the menu bar, left of the Spotlight menu. DEVONsphere Express looks like a leaf. Read more... Panel: A window floating above other windows, usually with smaller interface elements. Read more... Searching: Boolean operators: Boolean operator are AND, OR, and NOT. They are used to define how words or parts of search terms relate to each other. Example: 'steve AND jobs'. Read more... Fuzzy: A technology that in a search run finds also words that only match the search term to 90 percent, e.g. words with typos. This is by default the way DEVONsphere Express operates. Live updating: Searching as soon as the search term changes; the result list is always up-to-date. Read more... Query: See: search term. Results: A pool of documents or links to documents, e.g., web pages or PDF documents, returned by a search run. Search run: The process of searching e.g. your computer or a search engine. Search term: A text string, usually also containing Boolean operators, telling the software in a structured way what to search for. Wildcards: Characters in a search term replacing one or multiple arbitrary characters. Like the joker in a card game. Read more...