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Accessibility shortcut keys Help Viewer

A broad pallet is offered at the CHM files about mouse buttons and keyboard to functions to the navigation in the different windows. The user can individually decide in favor of this way after his personal habits.

Mouse buttons

There are several commands on the shortcut menu that you can use to display and customize information.

Command Description
Right-click in the table of contents, and then click Open All. Opens all books or folders in the table of contents. This command only works if the Contents tab is displayed.
Right-click in the table of contents, and then click Close All. Closes all books or folders. This command only works if the Contents tab is displayed.
Right-click, and then click Print. Prints the topic.
Right-click in the table of contents, and then click Customize Opens the Customize Information Wizard, which allows you to customize the documentation. If the help file was built with information types, you can use this wizard to select a subset of topics to view. For example, you could choose to see only overview topics.

 

Keyboard commands

Keyboard
Description
TAB toogle controls
Shift+TAB toogle controls backward
   
UpArrow Content tab - about single topics move up
DownArrow Content tab - about single topics move downward
LeftArrow Content tab - open heading
RightArrow Content tab - close heading
   
ENTER Content tab - open/close/show heading or topic
   
PgUp Content window - schnelles Bewegen nach oben
PgDown Content window - schnelles Bewegen nach unten
   
PgUp Content tab - jump to first topic
PgDown Content tab - jump to last topic
   
POS1 Content tab - jump to first topic
Ende Content tab - jump to last topic
BACKSPACE Content tab - jump to parent level topic
   

 

Shortcuts for the Help Viewer:

To Press
Close the Help Viewer. ALT+F4
Switch between the Help Viewer and other open windows. ALT+TAB
Display the Options menu. ALT+O
Change Microsoft Internet Explorer settings. The Internet Options dialog box contains accessibility settings. To change these settings click the General tab, and then click Accessibility. ALT+O, and then press I
Hide or show the Navigation pane. ALT+O, and then press T
Print a topic. ALT+O, and then press P, or right-click in the
Move back to the previous topic. ALT+LEFT ARROW, or ALT+O, and then press B
Move forward to the next topic (provided you have viewed it just previously). ALT+RIGHT ARROW, or ALT+O, and then press F
Turn on or off search highlighting. ALT+O, and then press O
Refresh the topic that appears in the Topic pane (this is useful if you have linked to a Web page). F5, or ALT+O, and then press R
Return to the home page (help authors can specify a home page for a help system). ALT+O, and then press H
Stop the viewer from opening a page (this is also useful if you are linking to the Web and want to stop a page from downloading). ALT+O, and then press S
Jump to a predetermined topic or Web page. The help author who builds a compiled help (.chm) file can add two links, on the Options menu, to important topics or Web pages. When you select a Jump command you go to one of those topics or Web pages. ALT+O, and then press 1 or 2
Switch between the Navigation pane and the Topic pane. F6
Scroll through a topic. UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW, or PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN
Scroll through all the links in a topic or through all the options on a Navigation pane tab. TAB

 

Shortcuts for the Contents tab:

To Press
Display the Contents tab. ALT+C
Open and close a book or folder. PLUS SIGN and MINUS SIGN, or LEFT ARROW and RIGHT ARROW
Select a topic. DOWN ARROW and UP ARROW
Display the selected topic. ENTER

 

Shortcuts for the Index tab:

To Press
Display the Index tab. ALT+N
Type a keyword to search for. ALT+W, and then type the word
Select a keyword in the list. UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW
Display the associated topic. ALT+D

 

Shortcuts for the Search tab:

To Press
Display the Search tab. ALT+S
Type a keyword to search for. ALT+W, and then type the word
Start a search. ALT+L
Select a topic in the results list. ALT+T, and then UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW
Display the selected topic. ALT+D
The following options are only available if full-text search is enabled.
Search for a keyword in the result list of a prior search. ALT+U
Search for words similar to the keyword. For example, to find words like "running" and "runs" for the keyword "run." ALT+M
Only search through topic titles. ALT+R

 

Shortcuts for the Favorites tab:

To Press
Display the Favorites tab. ALT+I
Add the currently displayed topic to the Favorites list. ALT+A
Select a topic in the Favorites list. ALT+P, and then UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW
Display the selected topic. ALT+D
Remove the selected topic from the list. ALT+R

 

 

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