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 Viewing and Annotating PDFs

 Once PDFs have been added to your Library, you can click the PDF icon or doubleclick the entry in your Library to read the documents in Mendeley.  

 Desktop with the PDF Viewer (a separate tab).


    options in PDF viewer

    In the PDF Viewer you can:

  • Search within the text of the document (using search box in upper right of toolbar) and view the highlighted search terms

  • Highlight text in the document

  • Add 'sticky notes' to annotate the text anywhere in the document. These annotations can be viewed in the Notes tab (next to the Details tab in the right hand toolbar). The notes, and any highlights, are saved with the PDF in your Library - for more about how to share or export annotations, see this blog post.

     

Sharing an Annotation

You can share your annotations with your co-researchers:

  1. Open a PDF that is part of a Group
  2. Make your annotations
  3. Sync these annotations to Mendeley Web by going back to "My Library" and clicking on "Sync Library"
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