System Requirements 
Windows 95/98/NT, Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1.

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Table of Content
            * Introduction
            * Features
            * Usage Context:Graphic Artist
            * Usage Context: Software developers
            * Download The Document Explorer
Introduction
         The Document Explorer allows you to browse Folders and documents.
         Everything is integrated into a single table of content hierachy.

         The Windows Explorer displays a hierarchy of folders in its left
         pane and folders' content in its right pane. The only exception
         is the Internet folder which displays Web pages. A folder is a
         documents container. Thus a folder is a collection of documents.
         Each folder provides function like "New", "Delete", "Copy",
         "Paste", "Move" to manipulate its collection.

         The Document Explorer displays a hierarchy of folders and
         documents. The Windows Explorer functionnality is still there but
         augmented with new capabilities. In Windows Explorer, only
         folders are displayed in the outline (the left pane). In the
         Document Explorer, the outline view displays folders and
         documents. When a folder is expanded, its collection is displayed
         under it. This way, the right pane can be used to display the
         document (see figure below)

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         With the document explorer you are not restricted to only one
         view of all your intranet resources: the desktop. You can create
         new name space shortcuts having their hierarchy rooted on any
         folder. For example, you can have a new hierarchy rooted to My
         Documents. Such a hierarchy is called an Explorer Bar. Instead of
         starting a new window to display a new hierarchy, you simply
         select from a list of explorer bars without having to quit the
         document explorer. You can even cut, copy paste elements between
         explorer bars.
Features
            * Create name space shortcuts
            * Display documents in the Explorer's right pane
            * Can edit in place with active document servers (Visio,
              PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
            * Set document filters for each Explorer bar
Usage Context: Graphic Artists
         Graphic artists do have a lot of images stored either in their
         local drives in file servers. Often, the image's title do not
         really convey the right information, and an image worth thousand
         words. To resolve this problem, create an Explorer bar ( a name
         space shortcut) rooted on each folders containing your images.
         For example, an explorer bar rooted on a local drive's folder and
         an explorer bar rooted to a file server folder. Then specify to
         the wizard that you want to display gif, jpg, bmp, wmf and other
         document's type in the filter section. The explorer bar will then
         display all documents of this type when the folder containing
         these document is expanded. Now you can browse through your
         images without having to open several applications.
Usage context: Software developers
         With the document explorer, developers can browse through source
         code without having to open their development environment or open
         them with notepad. The document explorer allows to browse
         through:

            * cpp
            * h
            * rc
            * def
            * mak
            * frm
            * bas

         A group of developers wants to share a source code libray and
         have the common goal to re-use software contained in the library.
         To browse a library, just open a document Explorer see the source
         code in the document viewer (i.e. explorer's right pane). You can
         even drag and drop it to your project when you found what you
         need.