Copyright: Copyright ® 1995 GST Technology Ltd
Citation: Copyright ® 1995 GST Technology Ltd


How to Use Help

Online Help is a convenient way to obtain information about working with Pressworks. You can keep the Help window permanently on-screen while you work by selecting Always on Top from the Help menu of the Help window.

Click on a button below to read its corresponding information.

Moving around the Help

Choosing a Help topic

Searching for Help

Browsing and backtracking

Returning to Help that you have viewed

Annotating a Help topic

Defining and using bookmarks

Printing Help

Cancelling Help


Moving around the Help

As in all Windows Help applications, you move around this Help to areas of interest using a system of 'jumps'. You can also 'pop up' definitions of specific words and phrases.

Most other Help systems show jumps as green text underlined with solid or dotted lines. In this Help, jumps are shown as buttons and popup definitions are denoted by underlined normal (black) text.

This button appears throughout the Help. It denotes a 'main' topic heading; another subject that may be relevant to the one you are currently reading about; a dialog description; or more information of related interest. Click on the button, or on its title text, to 'jump' to its topic.

A definition is available for any word or phrase that is underlined. Click on the word(s) to 'pop up' the information. To close a popup window, click anywhere on the screen or press any key.

Note: To return to the contents page, click on the Contents button at the top of the Help window.


Choosing a Help topic

A help topic is like a page in a book; choosing a topic is the same as turning to a new page.  To choose a Help topic, point to the button of the topic you want to read. The mouse pointer changes shape to a pointing finger. Click the mouse button to jump to that Help topic.

Alternatively, you can press Tab or Shift Tab to highlight the button of your choice, then press Return to display that Help topic.

Once the topic you want to read is displayed in the Help window, use the vertical scroll bar to move through the information as you read it.

Referring to related topics

Some topics are related to other topics. These related topics can be viewed by clicking on the See Also button which is positioned to the far right of the button bar.

A drop down list is displayed. Choose the topic that you wish to read.

If you are reading a topic which has no other topics related to it, the See Also button is disabled.

Click on the See Also button for an example.


See also:

This is an example of the topics that might be displayed after selecting the See Also button.

How to search for Help

How to browse and backtrack


Searching for Help

You can quickly search the Help for information on a specific subject. To do this:

1.	Click on the Search button in the Help window's button bar. The Search dialog will be displayed.

2.	Scroll through the list of subjects and click on the one you would like to read about to highlight it.

3.	Click on the Show Topics button. A list of the topics associated with that subject will be displayed.

4.	Select the topic you want to view.

5.	Click on the Go To button. The selected topic will be displayed in the Help window.


Browsing and backtracking

Use the Browse buttons (<< and >>) at the top of the Help window to browse backwards and forwards through the surrounding Help information.

When you reach the first or last topic in a sequence, the Browse buttons are disabled.

Click on the Back button at the top of the Help window to backtrack through the hierarchy of help topics that you have viewed in the current Help session.

If there is no previous topic to view, the Back button is disabled.


Returning to Help that you have viewed

Click on the History button at the top of the Help window to display a list of the previous 40 topics that you have viewed in the current Help session. Double-click on a topic to display it in the main Help window.

The History window stays open until you close it or exit Help.

To close the History window, double-click on its Control-menu box or press Alt F4.


Annotating a Help topic

You can add your own comments to a Help topic by annotating it.  To annotate the current Help topic:

1.	Select Annotate from the Help windows Edit menu.  The Annotate dialog is displayed.

2.	In the Annotate dialog, enter the text you want to add to the Help topic, then click on Save.

A paper-clip icon is placed to the left of the topic title to remind you that you have added a comment to this topic.

To view the annotation:

1.	Click on the paper-clip icon to the left of the topic title.  The Annotate dialog is displayed.

2.	When you have finished viewing the annotation, click on Cancel.

If you no longer need your comments about the Help topic, you can delete the annotation.  To delete an annotation, click on the paper-clip icon to display the Annotate dialog, then click on Delete.


Defining and using bookmarks

Just as you can place bookmarks in a book to mark specific references, you can place bookmarks in Help topics you use frequently.  To place a bookmark in the current Help topic:

1.	Select Define from the Help windows Bookmark menu.  The Bookmark Define dialog is displayed.

2.	In the Bookmark Name box, the topic title is displayed.  If you want to use a different title to identify the topic, enter a name in this box.

3.	Click on OK.

The bookmark name is now added to the Bookmark menu.  To turn straight to the marked Help topic: select the bookmark name for the topic you want to view from the Bookmark menu.  The topic is opened in the Help window.

If more than nine bookmarks have been defined, select More from the Bookmark menu.  The Bookmark dialog is displayed.  Select the bookmark name for the topic you want to view, then click on OK.

If you no longer need a topic to be marked, you can delete the bookmark.

To delete the bookmark:

1.	Select Define from the Bookmark menu.  The Bookmark Define dialog is displayed.

2.	Select the bookmark you want to delete.

3.	Click on Delete.


Printing Help

You can print the Help so that you have a hard copy to refer to. To print the current Help topic, select Print Topic from the Help windows File menu. The current Help topic is printed to the currently selected printer.

To choose a different printer, or to change the default printer options, select Print Setup from the Help windows File menu and choose the printer that you want to print to. For Help with the Print Setup dialog click on its Help button.

Note: You cannot print information that is in a 'pop up' window.


Cancelling Help

To close the Help window, select Exit from the Help window's File menu.


Dialog

A window used to supply information to Windows Help. When a dialog is displayed, all interaction with Windows Help must be through the dialog.


Mouse pointer

The cursor on screen that follows the movement of your mouse and indicates which area of the screen will be affected when you press the mouse button. The mouse pointer will change shape when performing certain tasks, eg. when positioned over a 'jump' or 'pop up' it will change shape to a pointing finger.


Scroll bar

The bar that appears at the right-hand edge of a Help window whose contents is not entirely visible.


  Control-menu box

The standard bar-shaped icon at the top-left corner of a window.