Getting Help in Mac OS X It's a good thing you've got a book about Mac OS X in your hands, because the only user manual you get with Mac OS X is the Help menu. | . Getting Help in Mac OS X It s a good thing you ve got a book about Mac OS X in your hands because the only user manual you get with Mac OS X is the Help menu. You get a Web browser-like program that reads a set of help files that reside in your System Library folder. Tip In fact you may not even be that lucky. In Leopard the general-information Help page about each topic is on your Mac but thousands of more nichey or more technical pages actually reside online and require an Internet connection to read. You re expected to find the topic you want in one of these three ways Use the new Search you click the Help menu a tiny search box appears just beneath your cursor Figure 1-28 . You can type a few words here to specify what you want help on setting up printer disk space whatever. Tip You can also hit -Shift- that is - to open the Help search box. And you can change that keystroke if you like in System Preferences Keyboard Mouse. Figure 1-28. In Leopard you don t have to open the Help program to begin a search. No matter what program you re in typing a search phrase into the box shown here produces an instantaneous list of help topics ready to read. The menu now becomes a list of Apple help topics pertaining to your search. Click one to open the Help browser described next you ve just saved some time and a couple of steps. Tip The results menu does not however show all of Help s results only the ones Apple thinks are most relevant. If you choose Show All Results at the bottom of the menu the Help browser opens described below . It shows a more complete list of Help-search results. Drill down. Alternatively you can begin your quest for assistance the old- fashioned way by opening the Help browser do that choose Help MacHelp. This works only in the Finder and only when nothing is typed in the Search box. To empty the Search box click the button at the right end. After a moment you arrive at the Help browser program shown in Figure 1-29. The .
