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# Help Overview

The VERITAS 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
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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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