Helping Yourself - Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual

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Get Around
Unlike with Help systems
in the "old" days, you won't
find navigation or print
buttons in Acrobat 9. The
Acrobat 9 Help system uses
the browser tools for com-
mon functions like printing
and navigating, thus leaving
a minimal, streamlined Help
interface.
Help Is Close at Hand
Sometimes you need to refer
to a page in the Help file
repeatedly. Instead of clos-
ing the window and then
reopening and finding the
page again, set a bookmark
for the page and add it to
your browser bookmarks.
Help Using Help
Pay attention to the way you
work. If you are a systematic
person, the Contents menu
in the Adobe Help Viewer
will guide you from gen-
eral to specific topics. Use
the Search menu if you are
familiar with the program
and want to locate a specific
topic.
C H A P T E R O N E
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Acrobat 9 offers a Web-based Help system. In addition to the usual sorts
of information you'd expect to find in a Help file, such as how to use the
program features and where to find shortcuts, the Help system includes
links to online resources such as Adobe Video Workshop, where you can
view videos on Acrobat and other Adobe software.
For in-depth information, use the main Help feature:
•
Choose Help > Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended Help or press the F1 key.
The Adobe Help Viewer opens in a browser window.
•
Use the navigation menu in the left frame to make your way through
the files.
•
You can choose from two types of search options—Contents or
Search—depending on what you are looking for and on your pre-
ferred method of working.
The Adobe Help Viewer shows the Contents menu (Figure 2) when it
opens. The content is arranged in a hierarchy. Each plus sign (+) next to
a topic means subtopics are available: Click the + to open a nested item
list. If a topic name displays a minus sign (–), it has nested content already
displayed. Click an item to display its contents in the main frame of the
browser window.
Figure 2 Click one of the main topic areas in the How To panel to
open a list of topics.
Getting Started, Staying Organized

Helping Yourself

From the Library of Daniel Dadian