CorelDRAW Help | Using the Help and tooltips

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Using the Help and tooltips

The Help provides comprehensive information about product features from within the application. If you are connected to the Internet, the application displays the Web-based Help, which contains the latest updates. If no Internet connection is available, the application displays the local Help, which was copied to your computer during product installation.

You can browse through the entire list of topics, look up tools and topics in the index, or search for specific words. You can also access the Corel Knowledge Base on the Corel Web site and other online resources from the Help window.

Tooltips provide helpful information about application controls when you position the pointer over icons, buttons, and other user interface elements.

Documentation conventions

The following table describes important conventions used in the user guide and Help.


Convention	Description	Examples
Menu Menu command	A menu item and menu command that you need to click in sequence	Click File Open.
	A note contains important information that is relevant to the preceding steps. It may describe conditions under which the procedure can be performed.	A compound blend cannot be copied or cloned. If you click the Equal margins button, you must specify values in the Top/left margin boxes.
	A tip contains suggestions for performing the preceding steps. It may present alternatives to the steps, or other benefits or uses of the procedure.	Trimming an object can reduce the drawing file size. You can change the number of swatches in the color grid by dragging the Size slider.

To use the Help

Click Help

Help topics.

Click one of the following tabs:

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Contents — lets you browse through topics in the Help. To open a topic, click the topic heading in the left pane.

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Index — lets you use the index to find a topic

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Search — lets you search the full text of the Help for a particular word or phrase


You can also
View context-sensitive Help from within a dialog box	Click the Help button in the dialog box.
Print a specific Help topic	Open a Help topic, click the page that you want to print, and click Print at the top of the Help window.

You can also access the Help by pressing F1.

To search the Help

Click Help

Help topics.

Click the Search tab, and type a word or phrase in the search box.

Choose a topic from the list that appears.

If your search results do not include any relevant topics, check whether you spelled the search word or phrase correctly. Note that the English Help uses American spelling (for example, “color,” “favorite,” “center,” and “rasterize”), so searching for British spellings (“colour,” “favourite,” “centre,” and “rasterise”) produces no results.

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