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| Use help as follows: |
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| ž To get help at any time, press F1 or click the right mouse button. |
| ž To get help on any part of a BASIC statement, a QuickBASIC menu item |
| or dialog box, position the cursor there press F1. |
| ž To remove the help information from the screen, press ESC. |
| ž To scroll help information, press PGDN. |
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| Look for the help display in either |
| ž The Help window at the top of the screen |
| ž A dialog box which pops up in the center of the screen |
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| In the Help window, use hyperlinks to display information about |
| related topics. |
| ž All BASIC keywords are hyperlinks |
| ž Other hyperlinks can be identified because |
| - Visually, they are bounded by highlighted arrowheads. |
| - Pressing the TAB key moves the cursor to a hyperlink. |
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| To display the information that a hyperlink refers to, position the |
| cursor anywhere on the hyperlink and press F1 or click the right |
| mouse button. |
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| Tip: Press F6 or SHIFT+F6 to move the cursor into the Help window or |
| move the mouse cursor into the Help window and click the left button. |
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| QuickBASIC saves the twenty most recently used hyperlinks. To review |
| them press ALT+F1, repeatedly. |
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| You can use QuickBASIC commands to |
| ž Copy text, such as a programming example, out of the Help window |
| and paste it into the View window |
| ž Find other uses of a term you want help on in the Help files. |
| This is useful if the term is not a hyperlink. |
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| An alternative to the Help shortcut keys F1 and ALT+F1 is the Help |
| menu commands. To pull down the Help menu, press ALT+H. Then, |
| to choose a Help menu command, press the letter key that matches |
| the highlighted letter in the command you want. |
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| Here is a summary of the Help menu commands: |
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| Command Action |
| ž Index Lists all the BASIC keywords as hyperlinks in the |
| Help window |
| ž Contents Lists a set of general topics about BASIC and |
| QuickBASIC as hyperlinks in the Help window. For |
| example, this is the way to display information |
| about BASIC data types or expression operators. |
| ž Topic: Displays help on the item where the cursor is |
| ž Help on Help Displays the text you have just finished reading. |
| To display this help on help text at any time, |
| press SHIFT+F1. |
