Copyright: ® Roger Hadgraft, 1992


Contents
A Guide to using Doctor Help files

Introduction

Browse Buttons

Standard Buttons

Up

Annotate

Copy and Print

Bookmarks

Where did I come from?


Introduction

There is already a Help file that tells you how to read normal Windows Help files. All of that information is not reproduced here, but you can see that file by clicking below. Click on Back or History to return to this file.

Show standard Help on Windows Help

This document describes the special features in this Help file, that are not part of the standard Windows help offering. This help file has been generted by Doctor Help, a Word for Windows macro that converts word processor documents into Help files.

To see the next topic, just click on the Next button (above):


Browse Buttons

You will find many Windows Help files with these Browse buttons. They allow you to read a document in linear fashion. In the case of this file, you can read from the start to the finish just by clicking on the [image] button, and you can step through the file in the reverse direction by using the other Browse button [image].


Standard Buttons

If you're familiar with Windows Help files, you will know that the following buttons are available:

Contents	Show the top level contents page

Search	Search a list of keywords

Back	Step back to the previous screen

History	Show the last 50 screens visited

As well, we have already met the Browse buttons. You will find all of these buttons extremely useful in navigating your way around Help files.

Note that in the Toolbar, all the navigation buttons are on the left. The only exception is the Annotate button on the right.


Up

This help file comes with an Up button [image] that allows you to backtrack in a hierarchical fashion. These Help files have a basic hierarchical structure. Whereas the Back button takes you back to the previous topic, Up takes you up one level. If you click on it several times, you will get back to the Contents page. The Up button only handles 4 levels in a hierarchy, but that should be enough.

The Up button will sometimes get confused if you branch off to another Help file. In this situation, you may get a "Macro was not found" message.


Annotate

All Windows Help files have a standard Annotate facility that allows you to attach notes to any topic within the Help file. A button [image] has been added to make access to this feature more convenient.


Copy and Print

Don't forget that you can copy topics or portions of topics to the clipboard, should you want to paste them into other applications, and you can print topics as well. These features are accessible from the menu bar.


Bookmarks

You can also define Bookmarks so that you can come back to certain topics again. This is also accessed via the menu bar.


Where did I come from?

You are using a Windows Help file generated automatically by a Word for Windows macro called Doctor Help (DOC to HLP) written by Roger Hadgraft. If you would like information on this macro, contact him by e-mail as roger.hadgraft@eng.monash.edu.au or by fax in Australia on +61 3 565 4944. The macro allows any Word document to be translated into a Help file, as long as it has been constructed with the standard heading styles. Registration is US$20.