Using Online Help

Studio includes extensive online help essentially a digital version of the product manual. Studio also provides Tool Tips, those little flags that explain an icon's function when you hover over the icon with your cursor for a moment or two. If you find these irritating, Studio lets you disable them.

In addition, Studio provides keyboard shortcuts for many common activities. Studio offers an online list of shortcuts, which you can access as described in the following tasks.

To open Studio's Help screen

• Do one of the following:
  
  
  • Press the F1 key.
    
    
  • Click the Question Mark icon in the upper-right corner of the screen (see Figure 2.14).
    
    
  • Choose Help > Help Topics (Figure 2.20).
    
    

    Figure 2.20. Here's how you open Studio's online Help screen.

    

    
    
  Studio's Help screen appears (Figure 2.21).
  
  

  Figure 2.21. What you get is essentially an online version of the manual.

  
  
  

To disable Studio's Tool Tips

• Choose Help > Display Tool Tips (Figure 2.22).
  
  

  Figure 2.22. If you find Tool Tips irritating, you can disable them.

  

  
  When you select Display Tool Tips, the check mark beside the Display Tool Tips menu item is removed (Figure 2.23). You can reenable Tool Tips by selecting Display Tool Tips in the Help menu again.
  
  

  Figure 2.23. Tool Tips are disabled when the check mark is gone from the side of the menu item.

  

  
  

To view Studio's keyboard shortcuts

• With Studio Help Topics open, select Keyboard Shortcuts at the bottom of the Contents menu.
  
  A list of keyboard shortcuts appears in the display window (Figure 2.24).
  
  

  Figure 2.24. If you're a fan of keyboard shortcuts, Pinnacle makes them easy to learn by posting them in the Help file.

  
  
  Now let's take a look at the steps you should take before starting your initial project.