Help!
Windows and QuickBooks have good help XE "help" systems. Two methods generally work for getting into
Help. The obvious way is to click
Help, and then click Help
in the dropped menu. Tabs (the things marked
Contents, Index, and Find
) will give you choices.
Another display may appear with a text listing. The display shown here should be accessible by clicking a
button for Search, Index, or
Contents. When you click the Find
button, Windows 3.1 will search the help
file, and list any topics found. If a topic is selected, clicking
Display
will return to the main Help window, and
display it. My own experience is that if I need to look up a Help topic (and I often do) it pays to print it.
These are basic instructions on using the Help system. Unfortunately, getting help is all too often contingent
on guessing, or stumbling across, the right word. (Who am I to complain? That helps the market for my book
!)
The Help program is part of Windows, but displays content provided by an application, such as QuickBooks.
In the progress from QuickBooks 2.0 to QuickBooks 5.0, Intuit’s content has gone from good to excellent.
You can expect to find a good deal of help there. A common shortcut for
Help is the function key F1.
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