Macromedia studio 8-exploring studio 8 User Manual

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Learning Studio

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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:

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To open the Help panel, select Help > Flash Help or press F.

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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.

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Click a book title to open it and display its topics.

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Click a topic title to display it.

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.

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The topic hierarchy for the current topic is displayed at the top of each 
help page.

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