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Displays the Help index. Type a topic you want to find, or scroll through the list of index entries. Click the index entry you want, and then click Display.


Displays the Help topic you selected, opens a closed book, or closes an opened book, if you've selected a book icon.


Prints the selected topic. If you click a book icon, all topics contained within that book will be printed.

This feature is available only on the Contents tab.


Displays the titles of the Help topics associated with the selected index entry. To see a topic, click it. To return to the index, click Cancel.


Displays Help topics organized by category. Double-click a book icon to see which topics are in that category. To view a topic, click it, and then click Display.

You can close a book by double-clicking the book icon.


Provides a space for you to type the name of a bookmark you can use to return quickly to this topic. The name appears in Bookmark.


Displays the list of current bookmarks.


Deletes the selected bookmark name from the list.


Provides a space for you to type any additional information associated with this topic. When a topic is annotated, a paper clip icon appears at the top of the topic. Click the paper clip to display this dialog box and the annotation text you typed.


Deletes the annotation text and closes the dialog box.


Copies the text selected in Current annotation. You can then paste the text into another document.


Pastes the Clipboard contents into Current annotation.


Provides a space for you to type the words or phrase you want to find in Help. You can type a few characters to display matching words in Select some matching words to narrow your search.

If you want to find more than one word, separate the words with a space. If you type uppercase characters, only words that are uppercase will be displayed. However, if you type lowercase characters, both uppercase and lowercase words will be displayed.

To change the search options, click Options.


Displays words that match the characters you typed. If this list is empty, the sequence of characters you typed is not in Help.

If you type more than one word, the word list displays an ellipsis (...) to indicate that there was a match for the first word you typed, and then displays words that match the next word you type.

You can select words from this list to search for them. The titles of the topics that contain these words appear in Click a topic, then click Display.


Displays the titles of the Help topics that contain the words or phrase you specified. Click the topic you want, and then click Display.

If your word list is set up for similarity searches, you can select the check box next to the title of a topic to mark it as relevant. Then you can click Find Similar to find topics that are similar to the topics you marked as relevant.


Removes the characters you typed in Type the word(s) you want to find.


Specifies how and when to search for your words or phrase.


Searches for Help topics that are related to those you selected under Click a topic, then click Display.

If Find Similar is unavailable, either you have not selected any topics, or your word list was not set up to support similarity searches. In the latter case, you need to create the word list again. On the Find tab, click Rebuild, and then click Customize search capabilities. In the Find Setup Wizard, continue to click Next until you see the Support similarity searches option. Make sure this option is selected.


Searches for Help topics that contain the words or phrase you specified. If you want to use Find Now, click Options, and then click After you click the Find Now button.

If Find Now is not available, the search automatically begins when you type the word or phrase.


Creates the word list again.


Displays the number of topics that contain the words you specified.


Displays a summary of the options that are set for your search. To change any of these settings, click Options.


Specifies that you want to find all Help topics containing all of the words you specify.


Specifies that you want to find all Help topics containing at least one of the words you specify.


Specifies that you want to find all Help topics containing the exact phrase you specify.

If this option is unavailable, your word list was not set up to support phrase searching, and you need to re-create your word list. To do this, click Rebuild, and then click Customize search capabilities. In the Find Setup Wizard, continue to click Next until you see the Display matching phrases option. Make sure this option is selected.


Narrows your search by displaying only those words that actually follow the word or phrase you type. If you have a very large file, this option may slow down the search.

If Display matching phrases is not selected, the list under Select some matching words to narrow your search displays all the words in Help and does not show which words actually follow the word or phrase you type.

Help searches for the next available words as soon as you press the SPACEBAR.


Determines how to match the characters you type to the words in Help.


Begins searching for topics when you click Find Now instead of searching as you type.


Begins searching for topics as soon as you begin typing.


Begins searching for topics after a pause in your typing.


Specifies which of the Help files associated with the current table of contents and index to search.


Displays the Help files. To select more than one file, press the CTRL key while you click the files you want. To select all of the files in the list, click Select All.


Selects all of the Help files in the list.


Click  [image]  at the top of the dialog box, and then click the specific item you want information about. Help is available for each item in this group.