Obtaining Online Help

The Constraints Editor contains context-sensitive help and a Help menu. You can obtain help on commands and procedures through the Help menus or by selecting the Help toolbar button. In addition, the dialog boxes associated with many commands have a Help button that you can click to obtain context-sensitive help.

Help Menu

Use the following Help menu commands to obtain help.

• The Help Topics command opens Help and lists the online help topics available for the Constraints Editor. From the Help Topics page, you can jump to command information or step-by-step instructions for using the software. After you open help, you can click on the Help Topics button in the Help window whenever you want to return to the help topic list.
  
  
• The Online Documentation command starts the DynaText browser and provides access to the online documentation.
  
  
• The About The Constraints Editor command opens a popup window that displays the version number of the software and a copyright notice.
  
  

Toolbar Help Button

You can obtain context-sensitive help from the toolbar as follows.

1. Click the Help button in the toolbar.
   
   
   
   The cursor changes to a question mark.
   
   
2. Click once with the left mouse button on the menu item or toolbar button for which you want help.
   
   The software displays help for the selected command or option.
   
   

NOTE

You can also press Shift F1 to obtain context-sensitive help.

Help Button in Dialog Boxes

Many of the dialog boxes in the Constraints Editor have a Help button that you can click to obtain help for the dialog box with which you are working. You can also press Alt H on your keyboard while positioned over the dialog box to obtain help.

F1 Key

Pressing the F1 key on a dialog box displays help on that dialog box. Pressing the F1 key is the same as selecting Help Topics from the Help menu, if no dialog boxes are displayed.