Datasheet

Although you don’t have to be connected to the Internet to use Mac Help,
you do need an Internet connection to get the most out of it. (Chapter 9
can help you set up an Internet connection, if you don’t have one.) That’s
because OS X installs only certain help articles on your hard drive. If you ask
a question that those articles don’t answer, Mac Help connects to Apple’s
Web site and downloads the answer (assuming that you have an active
Internet connection). These answers are the “results from product support,”
denoted by a plus sign and underlined text, shown in the lower part of the
window in Figure 1-5, earlier in this chapter. Click one, and Help Viewer
retrieves the text over the Internet. Although this can sometimes be inconve-
nient, it’s also quite smart. This way, the Help system can be updated at any
time by Apple without requiring any action from you.
Furthermore, after you’ve asked a question and Mac Help has grabbed the
answer from the Apple Web site, the answer remains on your hard drive for-
ever. If you ask for it again (even at a later date), your computer won’t have
to download it from the Apple Web site again.
Figure 1-6:
If you
choose an
item with a
menu icon,
an arrow
points to
that item in
context.
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