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Search the Help System

You can search the help system for any topic or material. This is faster than looking through the table of contents or index for a topic that you want to find.

To search the help system:

1. Open the help system by clicking the Help link on any page or dialog.
2. In the Search field on the help screen enter the text that you want to search for. By default, all files in the help system are searched. Narrow your search by selecting a search filter, if searching all files gives too many results.

   Example: In this example, we searched for "pergola".

   

3. Press Return on the keyboard or click the magnifying glass icon ( ).
4. The search results appears. Each result shows a brief portion of the text that includes your search word. Click the search term to display the help topic.

When you open a topic (click the topic title) from the Search window, the keywords you entered in the search field are highlighted.

Example:

You can remove the highlighting by clicking the Remove Highlighting button.

After you remove the highlighting, the topic appears normally:

Narrow your search

If your search results gives you a large number of topics you can narrow your search to just certain groups of help topics.

For example, say you enter "condo" in the search field and search all topics. Your result would be:

The results show every help topic that mentions "condo". Maybe you're only interested in the home style definition for condo. You could narrow your search by selecting Home Styles in the search filter drop down. Then your results would be:

Now the search results shows only two topics, both of which relate to home styles and condo.

Note: Remember, that if you search within a category and can't find what you are looking for, just change the category to "All Files" and search again.

Help file last modified: 7/26/2018