# Help Concepts

These topics describe a help window, introduce hyperlinks, and explain how help topics are organized.

- AHelpWindowAtAGlance

- Hyperlinks

- HelpTopicOrganization

## See Also

1. - Tasks

   - Table-Of-Contents

   - Home Topic

## A Help Window at a Glance

- The topic tree is an outline of help topics. You can scroll the list of topics, or to view a topic, click mouse button 1 on the title.

- The topic display area displays help topics. You can scroll the topic display area or resize the help window.

- Any underlined text is a hyperlink. You use hyperlinks to &dquote;jump&dquote; to other topics (see Hyperlinks).

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- A general help window has these buttons:

  Backtrack

- Returns to a previous topic.

History

- Lists topics and help volumes you have visited and enables you to redisplay a topic.

Index

- Opens a help index that you can search to find help on a subject.

## See Also

1. - ToLocateWhereYouAre

   - HelpTopicOrganization

   - Concepts

   - Tasks

   - Table-Of-Contents

   - Home Topic

## Hyperlinks in Help Topics

A hyperlink can be a word, phrase, or graphic image. Graphic hyperlinks are shown with an open-cornered border.

Two format styles are used to identify hyperlinks:

- A solid underscore indicates a standard hyperlink that is displayed in the current window or a new window.

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- A dashed underscore indicates that the help topic will be displayed in a smaller pop-up window.

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## Execution Hyperlinks

1. Most hyperlinks display help topics, but a hyperlink can also execute a command. When you choose an execution hyperlink, the Help System displays a confirmation dialog box that enables you to choose whether to execute the command. To change the default behavior, see Execution-Policy.

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   To select topics or hyperlinks using the keyboard, see Mouse-And-Keyboard.

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## See Also

1. - Execution-Policy

   - Mouse-And-Keyboard

   - DisplayingHelpTopics

   - Concepts

   - Tasks

   - Table-Of-Contents

   - Home Topic

## Help Topic Organization

- Help Volume A help volume is a collection of topics that describe an application or a particular subject. Typically there is one help volume per application.

  Similar to an outline, a volume is a hierarchy of topics. For example, an application might organize its help using these categories: Introduction, Tasks and Reference. Each of these in turn contains more detailed topics.

- Home Topic The top-level topic in a volume is called the home topic. It is the first topic in a help volume.

- Help Family A help volume can be assigned to a help family. A family includes one or more help volumes. This allows several related volumes to be grouped under a single name.

  To browse the list of help families available on your desktop, see ToBrowseDesktopHelp.

## See Also

1. - DisplayingHelpTopics

   - ToLocateWhereYouAre

   - Concepts

   - Tasks

   - Table-Of-Contents

   - Home Topic