# Welcome to ViTables Users’ Guide!

Vicent Mas

ViTables 3.0 Users’ Guide version 1.0

Aug 04, 2023

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Copyright © 2008-2019 Vicent Mas. All rights reserved.

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This manual is part of the Licensed Software included in the ViTables package. For detailed information see the LICENSE.txt file.

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- 1. Introduction
  - 1.1. Overview
  - 1.2. Capabilities
    - 1.2.1. Browsing and displaying capabilities
    - 1.2.2. Editing capabilities
    - 1.2.3. Other
  - 1.3. System Requirements
  - 1.4. Installation
    - 1.4.1. Linux
    - 1.4.2. Windows and Mac OS X
  - 1.5. Further Reading
- 2. First Steps
  - 2.1. How to Start
  - 2.2. The Menu Bar
  - 2.3. The Viewing Area
    - 2.3.1. The Databases Tree Viewer
    - 2.3.2. The Workspace
    - 2.3.3. The Logger
- 3. Browsing and Querying Datasets
  - 3.1. Browsing Datasets
  - 3.2. Getting Info
  - 3.3. Querying Tables
- 4. Editing Files
  - 4.1. Creating Complex Hierarchies
  - 4.2. Editing Object Trees
  - 4.3. Editing Leaves
- 5. Configuring ViTables
- 6. About Plugins
- 7. The Help Browser