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A variety of new software has recently been installed in
the HRC.
Abbyy FineReader - OCR software that allows scans, PDFs and digital photographs into searchable
and editable documents.
AntConc - A concordance program that lets you create word lists and search natural language text files for words, phrases, and patterns.
Final Draft - Is specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodes, and stage plays. It combines word processing with professional script formatting.
Gephi - Is open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs.
Office Proofing Tools - Installed for a variety of languages allows you to check spelling or grammar, hyphenate text and look up words in the thesaurus.
Oxygen XML Editor - This editor will provide full operational support of schemas, XSL, XSLT, XQuery and XPath. It is designed to test documents for validity, color code elements, number lines, highlight syntax errors and more.
Scrivener - A content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. Scrivener provides the tools you need to prepare your manuscript for submission or self-publishing.
For more information about these programs and many more stop by the HRC and speak to one of our staff members.
The website Google Lit Trips makes available studetn-generated Google Earth maps outlining literary voyages.
http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Hi_Ed/Hi_Ed.html



I recently had to match a master list with another list to see what terms matched in both lists in Excel and keep them in order. Another thing I wanted to do was to make sure if there wasn't a match in my second list with the master list of words, that a space was inserted in the column (representing no match). Here are the steps I took to make my list in Excel (I am working in Excel 2010).
- Copy and paste your master list (the list with all the terms you are checking) into Column A.
- Copy and paste the list of words you want to see a match for against the Master list into Column B.
- To put the two list into alphabetical order, you can select the two columns and go to Sort--> A-Z.
- We will use column C as the column to match our column B data and put spaces for none matches with Column A (Master list)
- Select the first cell in Column C and type the following formula in the formula textbox: =IF(ISNA(MATCH(A1,B:B,0)),"",A1)
- Copy that formula all the way down the column (stopping at the last master list word).
- Now Column C will be a sorted matched list to Column A with spaces if there isn't a word match.



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