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CHAPTER 18: DOCUMENTATION & OTHER RESOURCES
GETTING ONLINE HELP
254 ■ INTRODUCTION TO QUARTUS II ALTERA CORPORATION
Getting Online Help
The Quartus
®
II software includes a platform-independent Help system that
provides comprehensive documentation for the Quartus II software and
more details about the specific messages generated by the Quartus II
software. You can view Help in one of the following ways:
To search through a list of Help topics by keyword Choose
Index (Help menu) to perform a search by using the Index tab.
To search through the full text of the Help system Choose
Search (Help menu) to perform a search by using the Search tab.
To search an outline of Help topic categories Choose Contents
(Help menu) to view the Contents tab.
To add topics to your Favorites list Open the Quartus II Help
topic that you want to add to your list of favorite topics. Click the Favorites
tab and then click Add to add the topic to your Favorites list.
To view help on a message Select the message on which you want to
receive Help, and choose Help (right button pop-up menu). You can also
choose Messages (Help menu) for a scrollable list of all messages.
To get Help on a menu command or dialog box Press F1 from a
highlighted menu command or active dialog box for context-sensitive Help
on that item.
To find a definition of a term Choose Glossary (Help menu) to
view the Glossary list.
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Working with Help Topics
To print Help topics from the Contents tab, select the Help folder or individual Help
topic that you want to print, and choose Print (right button pop-up menu) or click
the Print button on the toolbar. If you select a Help folder to print, you can choose
to print all the topics in the folder. You can also use the Print command or Print
button to print any individual Help topic you are viewing.
To search for a keyword in an open Quartus II Help topic, press Ctrl+F to open the
Find dialog box, and type the search text, and then click Find Next.