dtSearch Guide – Part VI: Exploring Your Discovery with the Search Features Panel in dtSearch

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By Tisha DavisDerek Ametam and Joe Wanzala 

This is the sixth installment in our series on dtSearch. In this installment, we’ll continue to explore how to actually search your discovery data and make the most of dtSearch’s powerful search capabilities. You can find the previous installments here: Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4 and Part 5

In this installment, we will explore how to leverage dtSearch’s advanced Search features to further refine and expand your searches. These powerful options—such as fuzzy searching, synonym searching, stemming, phonic searching, and more—allow you to handle common real-world challenges like misspellings, OCR errors, varied terminology, and conceptual relationships.

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dtSearch Guide – Part V: Exploring Your Discovery with dtSearch’s Core Search Functions

By Tisha DavisDerek Ametam and Joe Wanzala 

This is the fifth installment in our series on dtSearch. In the previous posts, we covered how to set up and configure an index. In this installment, we’ll begin exploring  how to actually search your discovery data and make the most of dtSearch’s powerful search capabilities.  You can find the previous installments here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

dtSearch is built to help users rapidly and accurately find relevant information within massive datasets. It provides a versatile, layered set of search tools that can be used individually or combined for greater power and flexibility. Key components include Search requests, advanced Search features, Search within a Search (i.e. iterative or nested searching), Browse Words, and the User Thesaurus.

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dtSearch Guide – Part IV: Updating an Index

By Tisha DavisDerek Ametam and Joe Wanzala 

This is part of a series of posts focusing on dtSearch software. In this installment we cover how to update an index.

When you receive more productions, you can choose between two approaches. One option is to update the existing index but adding the new productions into the existing index. The other option is to create a new, separate index.

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dtSearch Guide – Part III: Creating an Index

This is the third post in a multi-part blog series on the dtSearch software. In this installment we cover how to create an index.

By Tisha DavisDerek Ametam and Joe Wanzala 

The first step in creating a dtSearch index begins in Windows Explorer. Pick a location for your index where it won’t need to be moved later, and where the documents you plan to index can also be stored. It is important these things 1) stay together and 2) don’t move so that a search will produce results. A good location is on a flash drive.

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dtSearch Guide – Part II: User Preferences

By Tisha DavisDerek Ametam and Joe Wanzala 

This is the second post in a multi-part blog series on using the dtSearch software. It guides you through configuring user preferences.

Setup/Preferences

After you install dtSearch, there are a few settings we recommend changing.[1] These changes will stay in place on that computer going forward. If you installed dtSearch on additional computers using the same license key, the settings on each computer will need to be changed in the same way.

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