Navigating and searching online help
You can use the search and navigation features to find information that explains how to work with your product.
Navigating
You can perform the following navigation tasks:
Expanding and collapsing the Table of Contents
You can control how many levels of topics are displayed in the Table of Contents.
To expand and collapse the Table of Contents:
to change the level of topics that are displayed in the Table of Contents.
to the left of the heading.You can create bookmarks to identify topics that you want to review.
to the left of a topic title. A yellow bookmark icon
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You can filter the Table of Contents to show only the topics you have bookmarked.
The list of bookmarks appears in the Table of Contents view.
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Showing and hiding chapter and section numbers in the Table of Contents
You can show or hide the chapter numbers that are displayed in the Table of Contents.
To show or hide chapter and section numbers:
Listing recently viewed topics
You can create a list of all of the topics that you have viewed during your current session. A yellow bar to the left of a topic indicates that you have viewed that topic during the current session. Dark yellow bars indicate the topics that you viewed most recently.
To list most recently viewed topics:
The list of recently viewed topics appears in the Table of Contents view.
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Searching
You can perform the following search tasks:
You can perform a basic search of a single document.
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You can further refine your search by specifying how you want the search criteria to be matched. The results will be displayed in the Table of Contents view.
Depending on your configuration, you may be able to perform a search across multiple documents or just a single document.
To specify where you want to search:
Setting display options for search results
You can specify how search results are presented in the result list.
To specify search result display options:
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On the top right side of the navigation pane, click
to open the Search Options menu and then click one of the following:-
Sort by match count to display results starting with the closest matches.
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Sort by main divisions to group the results by chapter first and then by closest match within each chapter.
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Show in Table of Contents (TOC) to display the results in the Table of Contents view. In the Table of Contents, a green number to the left of the topic title indicates the match score. The darkest shades of green indicate the topics with the highest frequency of matches. There is also a summary of all matches at the top of the Table of Contents view.
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You can save the search settings that you specified for use in future sessions.
Performing an on-the-fly search
The Show in TOC on-the-fly feature performs a search and dynamically displays the results while you are typing your search criteria. This feature is only available for single document searches and therefore is not available if you select All documentation modules.
To perform an on-the-fly search:
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On the top right side of the navigation pane, click
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In the search box, enter your search criteria and then pause.
The results will be displayed in the Table of Contents view.
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To return to the Table of Contents view, click the X in the search field.