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Now let's take a more formal look at the Visio help application and the different ways that we can invoke it. I mentioned in an earlier lesson that we always have the F1 key. That's the universal help key. That's all well and good so keep that in mind while you're in the application. We'll close out of help. Another way to access online help is from your standard tool bar. You've probably noticed the Microsoft Office Visio help button. If you give that a left click, sure enough that's another way to invoke the help system. Yet a third way, obviously enough, is opening the help menu and we can choose Microsoft Office Visio help and, depending upon your product edition, a developer reference. So let's just select Microsoft Office Visio help and sure enough, all of these options are ways to invoke this standalone application. Now then, I mentioned in an earlier lesson that the interface of Visio help is strongly redolent of a web browser; that is to say we have our backward, forward, stop, refresh and home buttons. We can print any article that we find helpful by clicking the print button. Let me click a representative article here. Ok. Once you're in an article, if you find that the font is too large or too small for your needs, we have this handy-dandy change font size button and we can just choose from largest to smallest. I'll set that to medium. That's pretty good, isn't it? Now, this is an especially helpful tool bar button, this show table of contents. First of all, let me come back to home and click that. And I want to show you the difference between the home page and the table of contents. It really depends upon your ease and comfort working with online help systems; that is to say the home page gives us a hyper-linked mapping of the major headings or books in Visio help, giving us sort of a two-column tabular view. Down below we're seeing current options, just like I mentioned when we did our privacy options. We're seeing current headlines and links to downloads, training and templates at Office online. So these can be very helpful to learn more about Visio on a daily basis. Alright. That's well and good. Now, coming back to the show table of contents button, if we give that a click, what we'll notice are these same options that we see on the home page, but just given in a different view; that is to say you'll notice that we can expand each book and see all of the specific articles directly within one pane, whereas if we're on the home page and we click getting help, it takes us to a separate page, almost like we're surfing the web. So it kind of depends on whether you're a traditionalist and you're more used to using the traditional help systems in Windows that use this book article approach, or if you're more of a web surfer and you don't mind going forward and backward, page by page. It's up to you. Now, you notice that this table of contents button looks like an open book now. We can click it again to hide the table of contents. So this table of contents is a toggle switch. And this final button, which looks like a thumbtack allows you to force the Visio help to be on top of your Visio application. And if you give that a click, you can toggle the state of whether it's forced on top or allowed to be subsumed or hidden by your Visio window. So those are the major aspects of the Visio help application. We've got the ability to turn our table of contents on or off, we can always come back to our home page or, if we're not exactly sure what the name of the feature is that we're interested in or we just want to learn more about some concept in general, we can use the free text search right here and then click search.