Using the Online Help System

Welcome to the FACTS Online Help System, an old feature made new with state-of-the-art technologies. If the Help window seems familiar that's because we use a tri-pane window format similar to that used in Microsoft Explorer and Outlook.

The tri-pane window in the Online Help System consists of a:

 

Button bar

From the button bar, you can choose the following functions, listed left to right:

Hide to toggle the Navigation pane on or off.

Expand All to open all of the books of the TOC and display all of the topics.

Collapse All to close all of the topic in the books of the TOC.

Print to print the currently displayed topic.

Quick Search Text Box to enter the search word or phrase in the currently displayed topic.

Quick Search to highlight every occurrence of a search word or phrase in the currently displayed topic.

Remove Quick Search Highlighting to remove the yellow shading on every occurrence of the search word in the topic display.

Back to back up to the last topic you viewed.

Forward to display the next topic listed in the TOC.

Stop to end navigating the TOC and displaying topics in the main window.

Refresh to redisplay the topic listed.

Home to display to the first topic listed in the TOC.

TOC to display the TOC pane.

Index to display the index pane.

Search to display the search pane.

Browse to navigate the browse sequence (if any) for topics in a module.

Navigation pane

The narrow pane to the left of the screen contains the

 

Contents tab

Index tab

 

 

Search tab

 

Topic pane

This is where the selected help topic appears. If a topic extends beyond a Window, use the scroll bars to see the rest of the topic. Topics can contain graphics, links to other topics and links to external Web sites, such as the Nexus.

You can print topics to any Windows printer, and you can annotate them. This is a helpful feature for FACTS users who need to add company-specific information to a topic or just add their own general notes. Annotations are user specific.

In addition, you can bookmark topics. This feature is useful if you frequently need to refer to certain topics. Bookmarks also allow you to mark your place if you are interrupted.