Summary

Here’s what you should know after reading this Chapter:

• Mac OS X displays onscreen help in the form of help tags and Help Viewer articles.

• The Help Viewer application displays short how-to articles, and you can display them by choosing items from the Help menu or by clicking a Help button in a window that has one. The kind of help that you get varies from application to application.

• Some Help Viewer articles include links that you click to see related articles, open related applications, or connect to an Internet site.

• You can search all Help Viewer articles for words you specify, optionally using the special characters +, |, !, and () to pinpoint what you want to find.

• If an object has a help tag, you view it by positioning the mouse pointer on the object and waiting a few seconds. A help tag appears in a small yellow box and succinctly describes the object under the pointer.

• Some applications use help systems not provided by Mac OS X.

• As a last resort, one can always turn to the manual or to the product’s Web site.