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| <h1>Help preferences</h1> |
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| On the |
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| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.help.ui.browsersPreferencePage)")'> |
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| <strong>Help</strong></a> |
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| preferences page, you can indicate how to display help information.</P> |
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| <TH ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1"> <P CLASS="Para"> Option</P></TH> |
| <TH ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1"> <P CLASS="Para"> Description</P></TH> |
| <TH ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1"> <P CLASS="Para"> Default</P></TH> |
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| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">Open Help Search</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">Configures whether Help/Search (and Help/Index if configured) opens the help view or help contents.</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">In the dynamic help view</span></TH> |
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| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">Open help view documents</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">This option allows you to |
| determine whether the documents selected in the help view will be opened |
| in-place, in the editor area or in a browser.</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">in-place </span></TH> |
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| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">Open Help Contents</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">Allows you to open help contents |
| in an external web browser or in the Eclipse help browser. Use "Web |
| Browser" preference page to select browser to use.</span> </TH> |
| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">Off</span></TH> |
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| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">Open window context help |
| </span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">This option allows you to |
| determine whether the window context help will be opened in a dynamic |
| help view or in an infopop.</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">in a dynamic help view |
| </span></TH> |
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| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">Open dialog context help</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">This option allows you to |
| determine whether the dialog context help will be opened in a dynamic |
| help section of help view or in an infopop.</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"> <span style="font-weight: 400">in dialog tray</span></TH> |
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| <P>Here is what the Help preferences page looks like: |
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| <img src="../images/help_preference.png" alt="Help Preference Page" border="0"> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts"><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/help.htm">Help</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/help_view.htm">Help view</a><br> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks"><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/help.xhtml">Accessing help</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/help_settings.htm">Help display settings</a><br> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelr.png" alt="Related reference"><br> |
| <a href="help_preferences_content.htm">Help Content preferences</a><br> |
| <a href="ref-42.htm">Web Browser preferences</a><br> |
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