HP Browse/XL User's Guide

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Help Facility Functions
HP Browse provides a comprehensive help facility offering useful information about functions and the
context in which they are used. To get help, press the Help function key, or "H", or "h", or "?". To leave the
help facility and return to browsing your file, press Control Y, or the Exit Help function key.
When you request help, the Main Help screen appears offering three categories of information:
1 Functions by Topic: Provides a list of tasks and how to accomplish them.
2 Function Description: Provides a list of HP Browse functions with descriptions.
3 Key Assignments: Provides a list of keys that are assigned to HP Browse functions.
You can then select which type of information you want by entering a number 1 through 3 or by pressing
the corresponding function key. To return to the previous menu, press Return, or function key F1. To view
the next page of help, press the Space bar, or the Next Page function key.
There is additional help under the Set Options function and the Print Text function. These give
information about setting HP Browse options, printing files, and setting print options.
To get help on setting options, press the Help Options function key in the Set Options keyset. HP Browse
displays information on each of the options and how to change them. To get help on printing text, press the
Help Print function key in the Print Text keyset. HP Browse displays information on each of the print
options, how to change them, and how to print all or part of your file.
Once you are in the help facility, press the Space bar, or the Next Page function key to see the next page of
information. To leave the help facility, press the Exit Help function key, or Control Y.
Keyset Functions
In addition to the numerous functions you can use to look at text files, HP Browse provides functions that
allow you to move from one keyset to another. These function keys are given below in Table 3-4.
Table 4: Keyset Functions and Their Locations
Function Key Description Location
Main Keys Return from a function-specific keyset to the
main keyset.
File/Print, Windows, Position,
Search, and MPE/Options keysets.
Exit Keyset Return from a third level keyset to a function-
specific keyset.
Print Text, Options, and Help keysets.
Exit Exit HP Browse Main keyset.
Next Keys/ Previous
Keys
View other keys in the keyset. These keys
exists where there are more than eight func-
tion keys in a keyset.
Position keyset.
Next Options/
Previous Options
View other Options in the keyset. Set Options keyset.
Next Page View the next page of text. Help keysets.
Previous Page View the previous page of text. Find All and Help keysets.