Getting additional help – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 User Manual
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Introduction
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Learning more about onscreen Help
Refer to AppleWorks Help for more tips on locating information and
customizing onscreen Help.
Getting additional help
Here are more ways to learn about AppleWorks:
Tip
To show or hide Tool Tips or the status bar, choose Preferences from the
Edit menu. In the Preferences dialog box, choose General from the Topic
pop-up menu, and then select or deselect Tool Tips or Show Status Bar.
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Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.
For information on
In the Help index,
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see:
Adding your own notes to a Help topic
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Help, customizing
Copying Help topics into an existing document
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Help, copying
Finding text within a Help topic
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Help, finding
Marking topics you use often
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Help, customizing
Printing one or more Help topics
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Help, printing
Referring to a glossary of AppleWorks terms
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glossary
To
Do this
Take an onscreen tour of the most important
AppleWorks features and concepts
Choose Introduction to AppleWorks from the
AppleWorks Help menu.
Use automated assistance in creating
various types of documents (such as
newsletters and presentations)
Choose New from the File menu, and then select
Use Assistant or Stationery. Choose a category from the
pop-up menu, and then select an Assistant from
the scrolling list. (For more information about
Assistants, see “Using an Assistant” on page 2-3.)
Use automated assistance in performing
complex tasks (such as adding footnotes
or tables to a document)
Choose AppleWorks Assistants from the AppleWorks
Help menu.
Use Tool Help to see the names of
AppleWorks tools, controls, and buttons
(when they’re displayed)
Hold the pointer over the item for a few seconds.
For tools, controls, and buttons, you see a pop-up
label.
See brief descriptions of AppleWorks
menu commands, tools, controls, and
buttons (when they’re displayed)
Hold the pointer over the item for a few seconds.
You see information about the item in the status
bar, at the bottom of the window.