By using the following keyboard shortcuts in Help, you can quickly accomplish many common tasks.
To do this | Use this keyboard shortcut |
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Display the Help window. | F1 |
Switch the cursor between the Help topic pane and the navigation pane (tabs such as Contents, Search, and Index). | F6 |
Change between tabs (for example, Contents, Search, and Index) while in the navigation pane. | Alt+Underlined letter of the tab |
Select the next hidden text or hyperlink. | Tab |
Select the previous hidden text or hyperlink. | Shift+Tab |
Perform the action for the selected Show All, Hide All, hidden text, or hyperlink. | Enter |
Display the Options menu to access any Help toolbar command. | Alt+O |
Hide or show the pane containing the Contents, Search, and Index tabs. | Alt+O, and then press T |
Display the previously viewed topic. | Alt+O, and then press B |
Display the next topic in a previously displayed sequence of topics. | Alt+O, and then press F |
Return to the specified home page. | Alt+O, and then press H |
Stop the Help window from opening a Help topic, which is useful if you want to stop a webpage from downloading. | Alt+O, and then press S |
Open the Internet Options dialog box for Microsoft Internet Explorer, where you can change accessibility settings. | Alt+O, and then press I |
Refresh the topic, which is useful if you have linked to a webpage. | Alt+O, and then press R |
Print all topics in a book or a selected topic only. | Alt+O, and then press P |
Close the Help window. | Alt+F4 |