Widex encyclopedia guide Here you can read about the various icons found in the encyclopedia as well as about the plug-ins you may be asked to download.

A dynamic and interactive encyclopedia

The entries in the encyclopedia may be accompanied by animations, video shots and other visual and graphic image material.

To get the full benefit of our encyclopedia we recommend that you download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

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To make the encyclopedia as user-friendly as possible we have chosen to use new technology, which in some areas is, unfortunately, not compatible with older browsers.

If you use an older browser, we recommend that you upgrade your browser to Internet Explorer 5.0+ or Netscape 6.0+ to get the full benefit of the functionality of the encyclopedia.

You can use the following links:

Internet Explorer
Netscape

Using the encyclopedia

You can search for subjects in the encyclopedia in two different ways:

Alphabetically – by writing a word in the search field – the desired word will be marked in the index field where you can choose it by clicking it, using the search button or pressing the ‘enter’ key on the keyboard.

Subject-related – if you wish to know more about, for example, ‘hearing aid’ you can write these words in the search field, and all the related subjects will be displayed in the search area in the left side of the encyclopedia.

Icons

The ‘Home’ button When you click this button you will go back to the front page of the encyclopedia. The ‘Index’ button Clicking this button will take you to the page where you can see the contents of the encyclopedia, indexed by subject. The ‘Search’ button The search button is part of the search function of the encyclopedia. It opens the active page in the index in the left side. The ‘Information’ button Clicking this button will take you to this page.		The ‘Print’ button Here you can print the active page. The print button opens a page that is suitable for printing in a separate window. The ‘Back’ button When you click this button you will go back to the previous page in the browser’s memory. The ‘Forward’ button If you have used the ‘Back’ button, you can click the ‘Forward’ button to return to the page just seen or to a page further forward in the browser’s memory.