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The HTML Help viewer window is divided into two panes. The navigation pane is on the left and the topics are displayed on the right. You can use standard Windows techniques to resize the panes and the viewer window itself. The navigation pane has four tabs:
Contents. Displays the table of contents, which organizes the topics logically like the table of contents in a book, with folders corresponding to volumes and chapters. You can use the table of contents to read through the topics sequentially like you would read through a book. When you "jump" into a topic using the index or search or by following a link, you may sometimes find it useful to look at the next and previous topics in the table of contents. You may find it helpful to spend some time browsing the table of contents, familiarizing yourself with its structure.
Note: To open or close all of the folders in the table of contents, right-click the Contents tab and select Open all or Close all.
Index. Displays the index, which, like the index in a book, is an alphabetical list of keyword entries. You can scroll through the index or type the first letters of the entry for which you are looking, to jump straight to it. For example, type Print to jump straight to the Print entries. To locate information using the index, either double-click the entry you want or select it and then click the Display button in the lower part of the screen. Some index entries have two levels, but note that using the top-level entry will sometimes lead to topics that are not available through the lower-level entries.
Search. Provides a powerful full-text search of all of the information in the online help. You can search for single words, combinations of words, or phrases, and use wildcards and Boolean operators. You can restrict the search to the results of the previous search or to the titles of topics, and choose whether the words for which you are searching are highlighted when you display the topics. See the topic Searching for Information for more information.
Favorites. Enables you to build a handy list of links to topics that you have found particularly useful. To add a topic to the Favorites tab, you first need to display it using the table of contents, the index, or by following a link to it. Then select the Favorites tab, optionally enter a name for the link, and then click Add. (You may want to give the link a name that helps you remember why you found the topic useful.) After you have added a topic to the Favorites list, you can display it by double-clicking it or selecting it and clicking Display. To remove a topic from the list, select it and click Remove. Note that you will lose your list of favorites when you upgrade to a new version of the online help.
Jump to URL. Displays the URL for the current help topic, and enables you to jump directly to another topic by pasting in a URL. This is useful if you have been sent a link to a topic in the form of a URL, or if you want to send a link to a colleague. To display the URL for a topic, right-click on the topic title in the Navigation pane of the Help window, and choose Jump to URL from the context menu. To display a different topic, paste the URL for the topic into the Jump to this URL field, and choose OK.