Conventions and Their Meanings

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Be Sure To This paragraph preceding or following a step-by-step exercise indicates any prerequisite requirements that you should attend to before beginning the exercise, or actions you should take to restore your system after completing the exercise.

Open This paragraph preceding a step-by-step exercise indicates files that you should open before beginning the exercise.

Close This paragraph following a step-by-step exercise provides instructions for closing open files or programs before moving on to another topic.

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Blue numbered steps guide you through step-by-step exercises and procedures in the “Quick Reference.”

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Black numbered steps guide you through procedures in sidebars and topic introductions.

See Also These paragraphs direct you to more information about a given topic in this book or elsewhere.

Troubleshooting 

These paragraphs explain how to fix a common problem that might prevent you from continuing with an exercise.

Tip 

These paragraphs provide a helpful hint or shortcut that makes working through a task easier, or information about other available options.

Important 

These paragraphs point out information that you need to know to complete a procedure.

The first time you are told to click a button in an exercise, a picture of the button appears in the left margin. If the name of the button does not appear on the button itself, the name appears under the picture.

In step-by-step exercises, keys you must press appear in key-shaped boxes.

A plus sign (+) between two key names means that you must hold down the first key while you press the second key. For example, “press ” means “hold down the key while you press the key.”

Program interface elements In steps, the names of program elements, such as buttons, commands, and dialog boxes, are shown in black bold characters.

User input Anything you are supposed to type appears in bold characters.

Glossary terms Terms that are explained in the glossary at the end of the book are shown in italic characters.