Datasheet

Using ToolTips
As you move your cursor around tools and palettes, pause a moment before
clicking the mouse. A slight delay in your actions produces a ToolTip, as
shown in Figure 1-14. Elements provides you this sort of dynamic help as you
move the cursor around the workspace and pause before moving to another
location.
Figure 1-14: Place the cursor over a tool and pause a moment to open a ToolTip.
Using the How To palette
The default Palette Bin in Standard Edit mode contains the How To palette at
the top of the bin. The How To palette lists some of the more common tasks
you are likely to perform in Elements. Click the right-pointing arrowhead to
expand a list and then click an item to open help information in the palette.
You can scroll pages by clicking the arrows, return to the opening How To
page by clicking the house icon, and print a topic by clicking the printer icon
if you want to create hard copy of some help information.
Taking Charge with Shortcuts
As Emeril says, “It’s time to kick it up a notch.” Kicking it up a notch in
Elements terms means leaving the pick and poke editing methods of the
novice and graduating to techniques used by the swift keyboard master.
Using keyboard shortcuts greatly reduces your time in Elements and makes
you much more proficient. The up side is that most of what you can do by
moving the mouse and clicking a tool or menu command can be performed
right from your keyboard by using combinations of keystrokes. The down
side is that, because there are so many keyboard shortcuts to remember,
learning all of them is nearly impossible.
The best way to remember keyboard shortcuts is to practice using them. After
that, you might want to browse the resources where shortcuts are defined.
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