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[Help Screenshot] The online help system is by far the weakest utility in the system. The interface is an HTML browser. The window cannot be resized beyond 794x650, which is a pain for anyone using larger screen sizes. The Back button takes you back to the top of the previous document, making it hard when scanning the table of contents to read an entry then resume scanning. There does not appear to be any way to follow a link in a new window, which would alleviate that problem. There is a search function, but it's segmented with no way to search for things in applications other than the application Help was started from. Online books are included as PDF files, but the provided PDF reader is very primitive. I found it best to find the files and print them or read them with my favorite PDF reader. Those flaws aside, it is possible - though somewhat agonizing - to find things in the online documentation.

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Mike W. Meyer
March, 2001