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Key Concepts
■ Within a Help topic, you can move to other relevant topics or definitions
by selecting the blue underlined text.
■ Click on the navigation bar to move to the previous topics that you
viewed. Only those topics that you have already viewed in the current
instance of online Help are included in this Back button sequence.
■ Click to hide the navigation pane of the Help system. Click to
redisplay the navigation pane.
Help Navigation
The Help system has a variety of methods that you can use to locate informa-
tion about AutoCAD Land Desktop commands, including the table of con-
tents, index, and search tabs. There is also a Favorites tab to which you can
add frequently used topics. Each of these methods has its own tab in the left
pane of the Help system.
■ The Contents tab has books with topic pages listed below each book. To
view a topic, click a book or a page.
■ The Index tab lists words organized numerically and alphabetically. Enter
a keyword to display the index entries, select a topic to view, and then
click Display. If more than one topic shares the same index entry, you can
choose the topic that you want to view. Only those topics that are indexed
are listed on the Index tab.
Move the pointer over a
command in a menu using
the up and down keyboard
arrows and press F1.
Displays the Help topic
that describes the
commands in the menu.
This topic has links to
specific Help topics for the
commands in the menu.
From a dialog box, click a
Help button.
Displays the Help topic
that describes how to use
the dialog box.
This topic provides the
information you need
without having to search
for it.
Accessing Help files (continued)
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