MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 Manual page 36

36 Learning Studio
This section covers the following topics:
"Opening the Help panel" on page 36
"Searching the help system" on page 36
"Using context-sensitive help" on page 38
"Printing the Flash documentation" on page 39
"Purchasing printed documentation" on page 39
"Discussing the Flash documentation with LiveDocs" on page 39
"Controlling the appearance of the Help panel" on page 40
"Getting updates to Flash Help" on page 41
Opening the Help panel
The Flash Help panel contains the full set of user-assistance information
provided with the Flash application.
To access help and the table of contents:
1.
To open the Help panel, select Help > Flash Help or press F.
2.
If the table of contents is not visible, click the Table of Contents button
to display the Table of Contents pane.
A list of help books is displayed.
3. Click a book title to open it and display its topics.
4.
Click a topic title to display it.
The topic hierarchy for the current topic is displayed at the top of each
help page.
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.