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Using help and the user’s manual together – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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AppleWorks 5 User’s Manual

Using Help and the User’s Manual together

This manual and AppleWorks Help, a comprehensive onscreen Help system,
are designed to work together.

Text marked with a bar, in the margin or within the text, lists index entries
to AppleWorks Help topics. These Help topics provide more information
about a feature.

To look up an index entry in AppleWorks Help, start AppleWorks, choose

AppleWorks Help Index

from the

or Help menu, and then scroll to the entry.

For complete instructions for using the index to onscreen Help, see “Using
the AppleWorks onscreen Help index” on page 1-4.

Special information in this manual looks like this:

Note

,

Tip

, or

titled

messages give extra or helpful information about a

subject.

Important

messages alert you to situations that require attention, such as an

action that you can’t undo.

Glossary terms are defined in the manual and AppleWorks Help. They
appear in italic in the manual, and underlined with a dotted line in Help.
Glossary terms are also listed in the manual’s index. For example, to find the
definition of

cell range

, look up

Cell range, described

.

You’ve used AppleWorks
before

Read the rest of this chapter to learn how to use this manual and
AppleWorks Help together.

Start AppleWorks (see “Starting AppleWorks” on page 2-1 if
you need help). Then review the list of new features in
AppleWorks 5 (see the

AppleWorks 5 Installation Manual

, or

choose

Appleworks Help Contents

from the

or Help menu, and

then click

New features in AppleWorks 5.0

).

As necessary, review AppleWorks Help topics and the chapters
in this book to learn more about specific procedures.

*

Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

For information on

In the Help index,

*

see:

an AppleWorks feature

E

index entries for relevant topics are listed here

If Do

this

In the Help index,

*

see:

E

index entries relating to the
current section are listed here