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Performing comparative analysis in STN AnaVist

With the STN AnaVist Highlight Manager, you can use multiple colors to compare as many as eight sets of documents and their relationships. For example, you can compare two companies in terms of areas of research and key researchers.

Using the Highlight Manager

To use the Highlight Manager, click the Highlight Color Selector () and select Highlight Manager.

Within the Highlight Manager, rows represent individual highlight sets and columns represent information about those highlight sets. Click in the Color column to display a color palette.  To change the color of the highlight set, click on the color of choice in the palette.

To add another highlight set, click New Highlight Set (). Click the Highlight Manager to select another color for this set from the palette.

Example: Comparing two companies

Once you have selected two colors within the Highlight Manager, you can highlight the two companies with different colors.  For example:

• Click the first color in the Highlight Manager.  On the Key Organizations/Assignees chart, click the bar for the first company.
• Click the second color.  Click the bar for the second company.  

The two companies that you are comparing are now highlighted in two different colors.

Data on the other charts are also appropriately highlighted in two colors.

In addition, the documents corresponding to the highlighted areas of the charts display in the Documents window.  The appropriate highlight color displays in the box to the left of the title.

Additional information

For more information, refer to the following topics available in the STN AnaVist Help:

• Highlight Documents
• Use Comparison Highlighting
• Highlight Manager