Subset browsing is a bit like proximity searching in a more conventional database program ΓÇö but it's far more convenient and intuitive to use. You define a subset by shift-clicking on an Index View. For a simple example, suppose you want to look for data about Apple Computer. But perhaps the words ΓÇ£APPLEΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£COMPUTERΓÇ¥ occur too many times in your database to conveniently browse in the usual Context View.
So, you go into a subset by clicking on one of the Empty buttons. You scroll or jump to the word ΓÇ£APPLEΓÇ¥ and shift-click on it; the Index view shows ~0% before you click, and ~100% afterwards. Now when you scroll to look at the word ΓÇ£COMPUTERΓÇ¥, you'll see that only some fraction, perhaps ~3%, of the occurrences of ΓÇ£COMPUTERΓÇ¥ were in the neighborhood of ΓÇ£APPLEΓÇ¥. Click now on the word ΓÇ£COMPUTERΓÇ¥ to see just those instances of ΓÇ£COMPUTERΓÇ¥ that are in your subset.
