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| <h1>Accessing and navigating online help</h1> |
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| <p>The help browser lets you browse, search, and print online documentation |
| for the product. To open the help browser, select <b>Help > Help Contents</b> |
| in the Workbench. This opens the help browser to the bookshelf, which shows the |
| major sets of documentation available. |
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| <p>To navigate online help: |
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| <li>Select the desired link on the bookshelf.</li> |
| <li>Expand the topic tree to find the information you are looking for. To |
| view a topic, click the link in the topic tree. </li> |
| <li>Most topics provide a list of links to related topics at the bottom. |
| Follow these links to learn more.</li> |
| <li>Use the <b>Go Forward</b> and <b>Go Back</b> buttons. These behave |
| the same way back and forward buttons work in an Internet browser, taking |
| you to topics you have already looked at.</li> |
| <li>To synchronize the navigation frame with the current topic, click the <b>Refresh / Show Current Topic</b> |
| button <img src="../images/e_synch_nav.png" alt="Refresh / Show Current Topic button" border="0" > or |
| <b>Show in Table of Contents</b> |
| button <img src="../images/e_synch_toc_nav.png" alt="Show in Table of Contents button" border="0" >. |
| This is helpful if you have followed several links to related topics in several |
| files, and want to see where the current topic fits into the navigation path.</li> |
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| <p>As an alternative to browsing the information this way, use the |
| search engine. Type a query into the <b>Search</b> field at the top of the |
| browser and click <b>Go</b>. |
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| <p>To see context sensitive help from the Workbench put focus on a particular |
| widget and press F1. For more details, refer to the list of related topics below. |
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| <p>To show documentation about capabilities that are disabled in the application, |
| select the <b>Show All Topics</b> |
| button <img src="../images/e_show_all.png" alt="Show All Topics button" border="0" >. |
| When you choose to show all topics in the table of contents, the headings for documentation |
| about any disabled activities are shown in the table of contents and also appear in search results. |
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| <h2>Maximizing help views</h2> |
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| <p>To increase the space available for viewing the help content, the frame that |
| displays content can be maximized. To maximize the frame, click the <b>Maximize</b> button |
| <img src="../images/e_maximize.png" alt="Maximize button" border="0" > |
| in the toolbar, or double click the toolbar. To return the frame to its original |
| size, click the <b>Restore</b> button |
| <img src="../images/e_restore.png" alt="Restore button" border="0" > |
| in the toolbar or double click the tool bar again. |
| Similarly, you can maximize the frame showing navigation, by double clicking |
| its toolbar. |
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| <h2>Printing online help</h2> |
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| <p>To print a topic from the online help: |
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| <li>Select the topic in the navigation frame.</li> |
| <li>Click the <b>Print</b> button <img src="../images/printer.png" alt="Print button" border="0" > |
| in the Help toolbar.</li> |
| <li>Select the desired printer settings, and click <b>Print</b>.</li> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" ><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/chelpsys.htm">Online help system</a> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br> |
| <a href="tsearch.htm">Searching online help</a><br> |
| <a href="tf1help.htm">Accessing context sensitive help</a> |
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