The help viewer is located in the HTML viewer in the main tab window. It displays the currently selected help topic.

## Context sensitive help

CrossStudio provides four types of context sensitive help with increasing detail:

Tool tips
  When you move your mouse pointer over a tool button and keep it still, a small window appears with a very brief description of the tool button and its keyboard shortcut if it has one.
Status tips
  In addition to tool tips, CrossStudio provides a longer description in the status bar when you hover over a tool button or when you move over a menu item.
What’s This?
  For even more detail, What’s This? help provides a description of tool buttons and menu items in an expanded form.
Online Manual
  CrossStudio has links from all windows to the online help system.

###### What’s This? help

To quickly find out what a menu item or tool button does, you can use “What’s This?” help. To do this:

- From the Help menu, click What’s This? or type Shift+F1
- Click on the tool button or menu item of interest.

CrossStudio will then display a small window containing the name and a brief description of the tool button or menu item.

###### Help in the online manual

CrossStudio provides an extensive HTML-based help system which is available at all times. To go to the help information for a particular window or user interface element:, do the following:

- Focus the appropriate element by clicking it.
- From the Help menu, click CrossStudio Help or type F1.

You can return to the Welcome page at any time:

- From the View menu, click HTML Browser then Home

—or—

- Type Alt+Home.

###### Help from the text editor

The text editor is linked to the help system in a special way. If you place the cursor over a word and press F1, that word is looked up in the help system index and the most likely page displayed in the HTML browser—it’s a great way to quickly find the reference help pages for functions provided in the library.

## Using the Contents window

The Contents view provides a list of all the topics and sub-topics within the help system.

The highlighted entry indicates the current help topic. Other topics can be selected and the help viewer will update accordingly.

###### To move to the next topic

- From the Help menu, click Next Topic

—or—

- Click the Next Topic tool button on the Contents window toolbar.

###### To move to the previous topic

- From the Help menu, click Previous Topic

—or—

- Click the Previous Topic tool button on the Contents window toolbar.

## Using the Search window

Using the Search window you can search for multiple words or phrases. When the search button is pressed the matching pages are listed in order of relevance.

When you select a topic in the Search window, the corresponding help topic is shown in the HTML browser.

## Using the Index window

The index view allows single keywords to be located. Keywords can either be typed, or selected from the list. As the selected keyword changes the topic with the highest number of hits is displayed. Other topics can be selected and the help viewer will update accordingly.