With the Table of Contents display, your search results are displayed from their respective tab location, with the number of search term hits found within each item noted. In other words, your search results will be grouped by publication rather than displayed in one long list of documents from which to scan. The Table of Contents display allows you to first review what publications contain the hits, then decide where to start looking for answers to your questions.
The Table of Contents
display feature replaces the "by publication" display. If you
currently had "by publication" set as your default display in
Preferences, the system will automatically change your default display
type to "by Table of Contents—Hits Only."
In addition, when you select the Table of Contents display, you will not be able to rank your search results by relevancy. An unlimited number of documents will also be returned in your search. Be sure to use the Table of Contents display when you need to rank search results by context, rather than sequentially with relevant documents listed first.
You can select the following Table of Contents display options in Preferences so that all searches you run will display in this manner:
By Table of Contents–Show All—items with search hits are displayed in bright blue from their respective tabs, with the number of hits in brackets []. Items you selected to search that contain no hits will be in grey, with "zero" noted in brackets [0]. The items in grey are available for viewing to help you locate related documents.
By Table of Contents–Hits Only—only the items with search hits are displayed in bright blue from their respective tabs, with the number of hits in brackets []. Items with no hits do not appear on the tab.
You can also set
the Table of Contents display in Search Tools for just the current search,
or you can switch to the Table of Contents display from the drop-down
list box in the Search Results—Table of Contents View. The drop-down list
box allows you to toggle back and forth between each display type for
your search results, with the search rerun each time to display the correct
list of results.
From the items displayed on the search results screen, decide which publications you wish to view. The terms you searched will also include terms found by the thesaurus, if you selected this option in Preferences.
Click the icon 
next to the selected items to display a document list of only
the search hits from that publication—listed in publication order. If
you ran a multiple tab search, you will need to move to the tabs you selected
to find any search term hits there.
At the top of the document list, select any of the following navigation options for documents listed:
Back to Search Results list—Returns you to the last search results list viewed (i.e., the last menu level that you navigated to in the Table of Contents search results display).
Print Text Only—Allows you to print all or selected documents on the list at one time.
Add to Research Folders—Adds documents from the list to your specified Research Folder.
Add to Favorite Search—Adds search terms, preferences, and publications as a Favorite Search.
Search Results Display toggle (drop-down list box)—Select "Display by Table of Contents" to return to the Table of Contents view you were previously on (i.e., Hits-only or Show All). Select "Display by Document" to toggle back to your document list when you are in the Search Results—Table of Contents View.
Click the underlined title of any item to menu walk within a publication and see where the search hits fall within the context of the publication and continue to "walk" all the way to the document you wish to open.
To easily close
all of the menu levels you have open, click the Collapse All link that
appears in the blue bar heading where you are menu-walking.
You can conduct another search from items displayed in the table of contents view by clicking checkboxes next to any publication, topic, or document for the subsequent search. See also Searching the search results list.