Online Help and Document Conventions

Using the Online Help

You can access online help in any of these ways:

From the Help menu, access the contents of the online help system by 

selecting 

Help > Contents and Index 

or by clicking on the Help icon, a 

question mark.

For a printed version of the manual associated with the application, or to view 

or search an Adobe Acrobat version of the help system, click the 

View PDF

button in the top frame of the help system. If you have Adobe Acrobat 

installed (either as an independent application or as a plug in to your 

browser), the document opens.

From Acrobat, you can search the entire manual, print the entire manual or 

selected pages, or read the manual online.

Document Conventions

This publication uses the following conventions:

Convention

Description

boldface

 font

Commands and keywords are in 

boldface

.

italic

 font

Arguments for which you supply values are in

 italics

.

string

A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation 

marks around the string or the string will include the 

quotation marks.

screen

 font

Terminal sessions and information the system displays 

are in 

screen

 font.

boldface screen

Information you must enter is in 

boldface screen

 font.

font

italic screen

 font

Arguments for which you supply values are in 

italic 

screen

 font.

Action > Reports

Command paths in a graphical user interface (GUI).

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