Using the guidance viewer

The guidance viewer enables you to view, manage and export single or multiple chapters of a piece of guidance.

If the ‘guidance chapter' tab or ‘table of contents' tab are ‘greyed out' it is because you have gone to the the guidance viewer from the search. You may have selected multiple pieces of guidance which are not available in these tabs simultaneously. Multiple pieces guidance can only be seen in the ‘selection tab'.

The ‘guidance chapter' tab

This tab is for reading the guidance chapter by chapter. You can read the chapters in order or go straight to a particular chapter you want.

You can do this by either selecting the chapter you want from the ‘drop-down' menu underneath the guidance title, or use the arrows at the bottom left or right of the viewer to move between the guidance chapters.

Print Chapter
Click this button to print the current chapter you are viewing.

• To print the whole guidance document, you may prefer to use the PDF icon instead and print the whole document from Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• If you wish to print only selected chapters, please see the ‘table of contents' tab in this document.

Add to Favourites
Click this to add the current chapter to your web browser favourites or bookmarks.

Change font size
By choosing one of these icons you can change the text size in the viewer to small, medium or large.

Download a PDF version
Selecting this icon will take you to the PDF ‘landing page' of the whole guidance document. You can then click the file to download it.

Download a Word version
(This icon only appears if there is a Word version of the document on the site.)

Selecting this icon will take you to the ‘landing page' for the word version of the whole guidance document. You can then click the file to download it.

Navigation arrows
These appear on the bottom left and right of the page depending on whether there are chapters before or after the one you have selected. You can use the arrows on the left for the previous chapter and the right for the next. Alternatively, you can use the ‘drop-down' menu to pick any chapter you wish to view.

The ‘table of contents' tab

This tab lets you select and read multiple chapters on screen or export them to a number of different formats.

Reading chapters

If you would like to read a single chapter from this tab, click on one of the titles. This will link to the ‘guidance chapter' tab and display your chosen chapter.

Selecting chapters

You can also use this tab to select one or multiple chapters to turn into:

1. PDF
2. Word
3. An email
4. Add to your selection.

To select one or more chapters, click in the checkbox to the left of the chapters you want.

If you wish to select all the chapters, or unselect your choice, use the ‘select/unselect all' option at the bottom of the chapters list.

Exporting selection to different formats

If you click ‘Word' at the bottom of the viewer your chapter or chapters will be converted into Microsoft Word.

If you select ‘PDF' at the bottom of the viewer your chapter or chapters will be converted into PDF.

If you enter an email address in the ‘email to' field, then your chapter or chapters can be emailed to that address or addresses.

Add to selection icon

Click this icon to move the chapters you have selected into the selection tab'.

The 'selection' tab

The selection tab will be ‘greyed out' until you add contents from either one piece of guidance from the ‘table of contents' tab or from your ‘recommendations' search results.

You can keep building what you have in your ‘selection' from any one visit to the website. Once you finish your session, your ‘selection' will deleted unless you have copied and saved the information onto your own computer.

Adding a chapter or chapters from one piece of guidance

1. Open the ‘guidance viewer' from the guidance summary page or via the recommendations search results
2. Select the chapter or chapters you require and click on the ‘add to selection icon'.

Adding recommendations from one or multiple pieces of guidance

1. Enter your search term in the search box on the website.
2. Select the ‘recommendations' search result tab.
3. Select the recommendations you wish from one or multiple pieces of guidance using the check box next to the search result. (Please note that selecting any recommendation from a piece of guidance will automatically select ALL recommendations from that guidance.) Your recommendations will display in the ‘selection' tab of the guidance viewer.

Display of guidance in the selection tab

If you have selected multiple pieces of guidance, they will show by individual guidance for example:

• Title (guidance number)
• Issue date
• Chapters
• Chapter headings (in the order they would appear in the whole guidance document, with only those you have selected displaying)
• Chapter content.

Removing selections

If you wish to clear all your selections, please use the ‘clear all' icon at the bottom of the page.

If you wish to remove only certain chapters, click the checkbox next to each chapter you want to remove and click the ‘remove selected' icon at the bottom of the page.