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## Basic Keyboard Navigation Concepts

The current active area of the screen is enclosed with a rectangle formed by dotted lines. This is the area that has focus.

Following are general rules for navigating the help window:

- Pressing the Tab key moves the focus to the next active area. Following are some examples:

- If a toolbar button has focus, pressing Tab moves you to the next toolbar button. Continue tabbing to cycle through the toolbar and move to the Contents label of the navigation pane.
- If focus is in a topic's HTML page, pressing Tab moves you to the next hyperlink.

Tip Hyperlinks show focus in the same way as other elements–with dotted outline formatting.

- Pressing Shift+Tab moves the focus to the previous active area. For example, if the Contents label has focus, pressing Shift+Tab moves you to the toolbar.
- Pressing the up or down arrow key selects options within a function. For example, use the down arrow key to scroll the list of topics found by a search.
- Pressing the Enter key activates your selection. Following are two examples:

- After scrolling the list of topics found in the Search tab, press Enter to display the selected topic.
- In an HTML topic, after tabbing to the Next link, press Enter to display the next topic.

- Pressing F6 moves you back and forth between the navigation tabs and the HTML page displayed in the contents pane.

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