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9 <p>You have the option of <em>marking</em>
10 entries. Keyboard shortcuts are CTRL-M and CTRL-SHIFT-M to mark
11 and unmark the selected entries, respectively, and you can also
12 access these actions in the menus.</p>
14 <p>Marking is not the same as selecting entries.
15 Marked entries behave differently from other entries in two
16 ways. First, they are always displayed with a different background
17 color in the entry table. Second, they will float to the top of your
18 entry list, as long as your table is not sorted according to
19 groups or a Float search.</p>
21 <p>The color each marked entry is displayed in depends on the marking
22 level of the entry, with the default colors ranging from yellow to red.
23 There are menu choices both for incrementing the marking level of the
24 selected entry or entries, and for directly setting the marking to a specific
27 <p>Marking entries can be useful for instance if you need to do
28 several searches without losing your first search results, or
29 if you need to remember which articles or books to look more
32 <p>In addition to manually marking entries, JabRef can optionally auto-mark
33 the latest imported entries, and at the same time unmark the previous entries
34 marked in this way. Such entries will be shown in a different color
35 from manually marked entries - by default green. This feature is toggled under
36 <b>Options -> Preferences -> General</b></p>
38 <p>Marking of entries will be associated with your username, the same name as is
39 used to fill in the "owner" field of entries you create or import (this will by
40 default match your user name in the operating system, but can be changed under
41 <b>Options -> Preferences -> General</b>). Different users can mark entries
42 independently. Saving the database will preserve the markings.</p>