User guide

Introduction
Designed for scientists, students, and scientific authors, ChemBioDraw 13.0 is a powerful yet easy-to use tool for pro-
ducing biological and chemical drawings. You can create your own drawings or use those provided in the library of
available templates.
About this manual
This manual describes all the features in ChemBioDraw 13.0 and their use. Some tasks described in this manual
must be performed in conjunction with other software. For example, instructions for ChemDraw/Excel describe tasks
that require Microsoft Excel. For assistance, consult the Excel online help or user’s guide.
Conventions used in this guide
This guide uses several basic conventions to help you quickly learn ChemBioDraw 13.0.
Instructions
Instructions are designed to help you navigate through menus and screens. Menu items appear in bold. For example,
to open a new drawing template:
1. Go to File>Open Templates>Amino Acids.
This step asks you to select the File menu, select Open Templates (in the File menu), and then select Amino Acids
(in the Open Templates submenu).
Notes, tips, and cautions
The manual also uses formatting for different types of information:
Note: Notes such as this highlight important information.
Tip: Tips supply useful, specific, “nice to know”, information supplemental to the main text.
Caution: These indicate important information that, if ignored, may lead to data loss or other serious problems.
Additional information
These resources are available to help you get started with ChemBioDraw 13.0:
Online help
In ChemBioDraw 13.0, press F1 or go to Help>Contents.
Tool tips
This is the name or a short description of a tool. To see a tool tip, point to a tool. A longer description of the tooltip is
available in the status bar.
Status bar
See the lower left corner of the ChemBioDraw 13.0 window for useful information. See figure below:
ChemBioDraw 13.0
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