Setting Preferences › Set Help Preferences

Set Help Preferences

The Help preferences page lets you indicate how to display help information.

Note: The options you select on this page can affect how the help view is presented. If the selected browser is not fully compatible with Internet Explorer or Mozilla, or has JavaScript disabled, the help view shown in the browser might be a simplified version.

To set help preferences

1. Click Window, Preferences, Help.

   The Help page appears.

2. Specify preferences:

   Use external browser

   Displays help contents if an embedded web browser is supported on your system. You can select this option to force help to use external browsers. The Web Browser preference page lets you select the browser to use.

   Open window context help

   Specifies whether the window context help will be opened in a dynamic help view or in an infopop.

   Open dialog context help

   Specifies whether the dialog context help is opened in a dynamic help section of help view or in an infopop.

   Open help view documents

   Specifies whether the documents selected in the help view will be opened in the help view or in the editor.

   Click OK.

   The Help preferences are set.