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Use online Help

Your Pearson product includes online Help and instructions on how to use it. In most courses, online Help provides the following options to assist you in locating information:

Help controls and buttons


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Contents bar	Display the Table of Contents. Help content is organized into books that contain pages or additional books. To open a book and show the books or pages it contains, click the book icon. To view the corresponding topic in the topic pane, click a page. To close a book, click the book icon again.
Search All Topics bar	Display the Search pane, which offers full-text search of the Help for occurrences of: Individual words. Phrases with quotes to look for an exact match. Phrases without quotes to look for any of the words in the phrase. This is equivalent to entering **word1 or word2. A combination of words with a Boolean keyword, such as not, and, or or. For example, the search string dogs and cats and fish locates all topics with all these words. Marks of punctuation can also be used in place of Boolean keywords. For details on using these symbols, refer to Use advanced search symbols. To use Search, type the words or phrases you are searching for in the box and click Search. The search string is not case-sensitive. For example, Cats matches cat and vice versa. The search results are weighted so that the most relevant topics are likely to be at the top of the list. To view one of the topics in the Search results, select it from the list. The topic appears on the content pane on the right with each word in the search string highlighted. To remove highlighting, click the Remove search highlighting button on the toolbar. To save a specific search string, click the Add search string to favorites** button, which is to the right of the Search button.
Favorites bar	Display any bookmarks to Help topics or saved searches.
Back button	Navigate to the previously displayed topic.
Forward button	Return to a topic you displayed in the current browser session. The Forward functions once you click the Back button one or more times.
Refresh button	Reload the current topic.
Stop button	Stop loading the current topic.
Hide navigation button	Hide or show the left pane of the Help frameset. When the pane is shown, you can click the button to hide it. When the pane is hidden, you can click the button to show it.
Remove search highlighting button	Remove highlighting of the current search string to make the current Help topic easier to read.
Add topic to favorites button	Add the current Help topic to the list of Favorite Topics on the Favorites bar.
Print topic button	Print the current Help topic in the frameset. To print all panes of the frameset, use the browser's Print button.