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You can use Symbol Explorer to drag symbols from a folder to the current document. You can also use Symbol Explorer to view document directories on your computer or a network drive. Symbol Explorer can also display HTML pages on the World Wide Web or your computer.

When you click Symbol Explorer on the Main toolbar, Symbol Explorer is displayed on the right side of the main window. The buttons on the Symbol Explorer are similar to the ones in the Windows Explorer. For example, you can click a Favorites button to go to one of your favorite web sites.

If you set the path of the Symbol Explorer to point to a folder, you see a tree view, the contents of the folder, and the Attribute Viewer. If you set the path to an HTML page, you see the contents of that page, if Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later is installed. If Internet Explorer is not installed, then the software prompts you to install it.

Placing Symbols

The main use of the Symbol Explorer is to drag symbols from a folder to the current document. The Symbol Explorer acts much like the Windows Explorer. To view symbols, you can type the name of the folder in the Address Box at the top of the Symbol Explorer; or you can click the Explore Elsewhere button and set the folder path in which the Symbol Explorer looks.

If you click Home at the top of the Symbol Explorer, it displays the home page for the symbols that are associated with the template on which the active document is based. You can override this property by setting a new address with Properties on the File menu. On the Properties dialog box, you click the Browser tab to set the option.

After the Symbol Explorer displays the symbols, you can drag a symbol from the Symbol Explorer to the current document.

Displaying HTML Pages

The Symbol Explorer can display HTML pages on the World Wide Web or your computer. To view an HTML page in the Symbol Explorer, you must enter the entire folder path and filename in the Address Box at the top of the Symbol Explorer.

To view HTML pages on the World Wide Web, you must type the HTTP address in the Address Box at the top of the Symbol Explorer. When you do this, the Symbol Explorer displays the HTML page of the address you entered. The Symbol Explorer can display any web site that you have permissions to access.

HTML pages appear only if Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later is installed.

Searching Document Directories

You can view the Symbols of any folder on your computer or the network with the Symbol Explorer. You can type the path of the folder in the Address Box; or you can click Browse and set the folder path on the dialog box.

After the Symbol Explorer displays the required symbols folder, you can double-click any document, much like the Windows Explorer, and the software that created the document opens and displays the document for editing.You can drag any document created by software that supports OLE 2.0 into the current document. These documents can include .igr, .dgn, .dwg, and .dxf types.

Symbol Explorer Settings

When you set options for the Symbol Explorer, the current document stores and uses these the next time you open the document. You can define a different home page for each document in the Symbol Explorer with Properties on the File menu.

On the Properties dialog box, you click Browser to set the option. When you set the address for the home page on the Properties dialog box, the Symbol Explorer goes to that address when you click the Home button at the top of the Symbol Explorer.

The address can be a folder on a local or network drive or an HTTP address to a web page.

See Also

Close the Symbol Explorer
Move the Symbol Explorer
Open Documents from the Symbol Explorer