Hiding branches

In some circumstances you may want to work with only some of the branches showing, enabling you to focus on either the main details or the particular portion of the mind map you are working on.

Note that hidden branches are NOT included in any text searches, spell checks, exported text or printouts although exporting and printing does have an option where this can be over-ridden by selecting the checkbox if desired although the branch will still remain hidden on your Mind Map.

You can hide specific branches by selecting the parent branch, and selecting the menu item "Branch/Hide Children". This command is also available on the context menu for a branch, and by pressing +* (asterisk). When a branch has manually hidden children, there is a blue plus sign indicating that the children are hidden. If you click on this indicator, the hidden children are displayed again. If you add children to a branch where the children are hidden, the children will be shown. Note that if you select multiple branches and use this option, all the selected branches will individually have their child branches hidden - this can be useful for progressive revelation of the details during presentations.

In the map view settings, you can turn on the "Show Collapse Symbol" option and this will show a small "-" icon beside the end of each branch. When you click on the icon beside a branch it will hide the children of that branch.