Quick Guide To Trove Resident Research

1. Search Trove for an article

This is the hardest part. You will spend a lot of time trying different searches and reading articles to find out whether they're relevant. I’ve made another document that covers Trove Search Tips’n’Tricks

2. Copy and Paste a relevant piece of text to your document.

Once you’ve found an interesting article or piece of text, use the mouse to copy-and-paste the text from the article to your document. (If you know what you’re doing, try to make a 2-column table with the date of the article in the first column, the text in the second and a row for each entry).

You’ll need to spend some time editing and ‘cleaning-up’ the text once you’ve put it into the Doc.

Also, put the date of the article (that you can read from Trove) on the line before so you remember when the article was published.

You’ll often find that you copy-and-paste lots of shorter lines from the Trove text following their format, instead of it being all on the same line. This is because there’s a ‘newline’ character at the end of each line of text from Trove, as if when you’d typed it, you’d then hit ‘Enter’. You would have to backspace

You can remove these by hand, but there is a quicker way …

• highlight the text

• press Ctrl-h on the keyboard which opens ‘Find & Replace’ window

• tick the box near the bottom that says ‘Match Using Regular Expressions’ (it's a fancy way of finding text)

• carefully, in the ‘Find’ box put \n (backslash, lowercase n - this is a regular expression that matches a new line) 

• in the ‘Replace with’ box put a single space (hit the spacebar once)

• click the Replace button as often as you have to - each time you should see a line join-up with a space between. If you make a mistake, just use Edit -> Undo (or Ctrl-Z).