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Searching the help system
Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 provide thorough search capabilities
that help you easily find the information you need. In the Flash Help
panel, you can search for help pages that contain specific words or phrases.
You can search Flash Help in the following ways:
Single-word
searches return a list of help pages that contain the specified
word. For example, you might type timeline in the search text box. This
search returns a list of help pages that contain the word timeline or
Timeline.
Multiple-word
searches return a list of help pages that each contain all of
the search terms you enter. In this case the word and is implicit in the
search. For example, you might type movie clip in the search text box. This
action returns a list of pages that contain both movie and clip—that is, clip
movie, movie clip, or movie...clip, and so on.
Explicit AND/OR
searches use the words and or or to refine the search
results. For example, you might type timeline and keyframe or tween in
the search text box. This action returns a list of help pages that contain
timeline and keyframe and help pages that contain timeline and tween.
Exact phrase
searches allow you to use quotation marks to return only
pages that contain the specific phrase you enter. For example, you might
type "motion tween" in the search text box. This action returns a list of
help pages that contain the phrase motion tween, but not pages that contain
separate instances of motion and tween.
Exact phrase with explicit AND/OR
combination of quotation marks and the words and or or to further refine
your searches. For example, you might type "motion tween" and
"ActionScript" in the search field. This action returns a list of pages that
contain both the phrase motion tween and the word ActionScript.
To search for a word or phrase in the Help panel:
1.
In the Category menu, select a category of books to search.
To search all of the books, select All Books.
2.
Enter a word or phrase in the text box, and then click Search.
A list of help topics that contain the word or phrase is displayed,
organized by book.
searches allow you to use a
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