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Part I: Introducing OS X Lion: The Basics
Clicking the Help menu reveals the Search Help field at the top of the menu
and the Mac Help item, which opens the Mac Help window, as shown in
Figure 1-5.
Figure 1-5: Mac Help is nothing if not helpful.
The keyboard shortcut for Help appears on the Help menu as Ô+?, but you
really need to press
+Ô+? to open Help through the keyboard.
Just so you know, this is the only shortcut I can think of in which the menu
doesn’t display an up arrow (
+Ô+?) to let you know that you need to press
Shift.
You can find out much more about keyboard shortcuts in Chapter 3.
To use Mac Help, simply type a word or phrase in either Search field — the
one in the Help menu itself or the one near the top of the Help window on the
right side — and then press Return or Enter. In a few seconds, your Mac pro-
vides you one or more articles to read, which (theoretically) are related to
your question. Usually. If you type menus and press Return, for example, you
get 17 help topics, as shown in Figure 1-6.
As long as your Mac is connected to the Internet, search results include arti-
cles from Apple’s online support database by default. Click the magnifying-
glass icon to the left of the Search field, as shown in Figure 1-6, if you want to
disable this feature.
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