Section 11.2.


11.2. "What's This?": Help for Dialog Boxes

If you're ever facing a dialog box (like the one shown in Figure 11-4) while scanning a cluster of oddly worded options, Windows XP's "What's This?" feature can come to the rescue. It makes pop-up captions appear for text boxes, checkboxes, option buttons , and other dialog box elements.

You can summon these pop-up identifiers in either of two ways:

Figure 11-3. As you type, Windows XP matches each character by highlighting successive index listings. Most of the entries in the index are indentedthese are the links to actual help pages. Don't waste your time trying to double-click the category headings. They don't do anything when double-clicked, since you're supposed to open one of the indented subentries.

  • Right-click something in the dialog box. In the world's shortest shortcut menu that now appears, click What's This?

  • Click the question mark in the upper-right corner of the dialog box, and then click the element you want identified.

Figure 11-4. After clicking the question-mark icon at the upper-right corner, you can click any control in a dialog boxin this case, a disk-capacity graphto read about its function. To make the pop-up box go away, click anywhere within its border.




Windows XP for Starters. The Missing Manual
Windows XP for Starters: The Missing Manual: Exactly What You Need to Get Started
ISBN: 0596101554
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 162
Authors: David Pogue

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