About This Help System

The following functionality is available in this help system:

• Table of Contents - allows you to browse help in a categorical organization.
• Search - allows you to search for any word or term in the help system. For more information on search, refer to the Searching Online Help section below.
• Index - allows you to look up index terms linked to help topics.

Searching Online Help

• Searches are not case-sensitive.

• You can search for any combination of letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9).

• Punctuation marks such as the period, colon, semicolon, comma, and hyphen are ignored.

• Group the elements of your search using double quotes or parentheses to set apart each element. You cannot search for quotation marks.
  
  Note: If you are searching for a file name with an extension, group the entire string in double quotes, ("filename.ext"). Otherwise, the period will break the file name into two separate terms. The default operation between terms is AND, so you will create the logical equivalent to "filename AND ext."

• Wildcards are not supported.

• Boolean operators are supported. The AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR operators enable you to precisely define your search by creating a relationship between search terms. The following table shows how you can use each of these operators. If no operator is specified, AND is used. For example, the query "water ski boat" is equivalent to "water AND ski AND boat."

  Search for	Example	Results
  Both terms in the same topic.	wave AND sand	Topics containing both the words "wave" and "sand."
  Either term in a topic.	boat OR catamaran	Topics containing either the word "boat" or the word "catamaran" or both.
  The first term without the second term.	water NOT lake	Topics containing the word "water," but not the word "lake."
  Both terms in the same topic, close together.	swim NEAR ocean	Topics containing the word "swim" within eight words of the word "ocean."

  Note: The |, &, and ! characters do not work as Boolean operators (you must use OR, AND, and NOT).

• Nested expressions allow you to create complex searches for information. For example, "ocean AND ((swim OR surf) NEAR Malibu)" finds topics containing the word "ocean" along with the words "swim" and "Malibu" close together, or containing "ocean" along with the words "surf" and "Malibu" close together.
  
  The basic rules for searching Help topics using nested expressions are as follows:

• You can use parentheses to nest expressions within a query. The expressions in parentheses are evaluated before the rest of the query.

• If a query does not contain a nested expression, it is evaluated from left to right. For example: "scuba NOT Florida OR Bahamas" finds topics containing the word "scuba" without the word "Florida," or topics containing the word "Bahamas." On the other hand, "scuba NOT (Florida OR Bahamas)" finds topics containing the word "scuba" without either of the words "Florida" or "Bahamas."

• You cannot nest expressions more than five levels deep.