Datasheet
FIGURE 1.53
Click different topics in the How To pane in the Navigation pane to explore help information.
Acrobat help
The How To window contains a select group of common Acrobat features about which you can find help
within the listed topics on the Homepage. However, Acrobat is a monster program with many features and
listing all the methods for working in the program is not the purpose of the How To help pane. To browse
through a comprehensive help guide you need to access a different document. The comprehensive help
guide contains more than 800 pages covering just about everything you want to know about Acrobat. There
are, in essence, two flavors of the Acrobat Help guide. You can access the Complete Acrobat 8.0 Help docu-
ment by selecting Help ➪ Complete Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional (or Standard) Help or you can open
the Acrohelp.pdf file in Acrobat. These two documents are different in that the Complete Acrobat Help doc-
ument is viewed in a separate executable application called the Adobe Help Viewer. The Acrohelp.pdf file is
a standard PDF document contained in the Acrobat folder. Depending on which one you open, you have
some different methods for viewing and navigation.
Complete Acrobat 8.0 Help
You open the Adobe Help Viewer window by selecting Help ➪ Complete Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional
(or Standard) Help. The Adobe Help Viewer contains three tabs appear in the top of the window as shown
in Figure 1.54. Click the Contents tab to show bookmarks, Index to see an alphabetical list of indexed top-
ics, and Search to search for keywords.
Contents tab
By default the Adobe Help Viewer document opens with the Contents tab exposed as shown in Figure 1.54.
In the Navigation pane you’ll find a table of contents for the document shown in a very similar manner to
the way bookmarks are listed in a PDF document. Click one of the bookmark topics listed in the Contents
tab to see the respective bookmarked page in the Topic pane.
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