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Help Overview

The help viewer uses a familiar three-pane scheme with the following elements:

  • Menus and a toolbar–Point to a toolbar button for a description of the tool.
  • Select product documentation–If multiple product help sets are loaded in the viewer, you can filter the view to display only a single product's help set by selecting that product in the Select product documentation listbox.
  • Navigation pane–Locate topics from the Contents, Index, and Search tabs.
  • Topic pane–View the contents of the selected topic. Previous and Next links at the top and bottom of each topic allow you to browse the help system.

You can obtain context-sensitive help from your application by clicking the Help button in one of the windows or by pressing the F1 key (if available for your application).

The following table describes the main help features and lists how to access the features.

Help Features 

Feature

Description

How To Access

Contents

List the help topics. Expand or collapse folders to show or hide the topics available.

Contents tab


Index

Search for indexed topics. Start typing the term you want to locate and help searches the index for the term. Select the highlighted entry to view the topic. If the entry contains a subentry, select the subentry instead. The index is not case-sensitive.

Index tab


Search

Search for any word, word fragment, or multi-word term in the help set. For more detail, see Performing a Search.

Search tab


Find in Contents

Find the current topic's location in the Contents tab. Use this feature after browsing, searching, or displaying help from the application's Help button. When using these methods to access a topic, the topic is not highlighted in the Contents tab. You can synchronize the view so the current topic is highlighted in the Contents tab.

View menu and
toolbar button


Hide/Show Navigation Tabs

Hide or display the navigation pane that contains the Contents, Index, and Search tabs. This option toggles between Hide Navigation Tabs and Show Navigation Tabs.

Options menu and
toolbar button


Back/Forward

View topics in the order they appeared (their history) in the current viewing session.

View menu and
toolbar buttons


Print

Allows you to print the current topic. (Available if your product supports the printing of help topics.)

File menu and
toolbar button


Find/Find Next/
Find Previous

Locate a phrase, word, or word fragment within the current topic.

Edit menu


Pop-up context menus

Right-click inside the Content pane to display a context menu with useful commands.

Right-click in Content pane


 

 

 

 

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