Chapter 3: Finding Information

Apart from this Getting Started book, all the documentation is online only. You get to it from the Windows 95 or Windows NT Start menu, or from Revolve's Help menu. This Getting Started book is both online and in printed book form.

Much of the documentation is in the form of online help. The rest is in the form of online books written as Web pages. You get to these from the Windows 95 or Windows NT Start menu or from the Revolve help. When you click a book's button in the help, the book is displayed in your Web browser.

When you're looking for information, we recommend trying the different kinds of documentation in the following order:

See if there's a tool tip.
If you want information about a field or control, try leaving the mouse pointer on it for a moment. A brief description of its purpose may be displayed, either beside it or at the bottom of the Revolve window.
Try context help.
If you want information about a menu item or control, click at the top right, then click the menu item or control. Alternatively, put your mouse pointer on the menu item or control (don't click if that's going to start a function), and press F1. You may also be able to right-click on the item and click What's This? on a popup menu that appears.
Look in the help, using the help index.
If Revolve is running, click Help Topics on the Help menu. Otherwise, from the Start menu, click Programs, then Micro Focus Revolve, then Revolve Help. Then click the Index tab and enter a relevant word. The index will automatically position at the entry, if one exists. Alternatively, scroll through the index to find what you want.

In some cases the help index takes you to a help topic that directs you to an online book. If this happens, click Index in the Table of Contents of the online book, click the first letter of the phrase you're looking for, then scroll the index to find the phrase.
Look in the help using Find.
Return to Help Topics, click the Find tab, and enter the word you're looking for. If this is the first time you've used Find since installing, the system will take a little while to create a dictionary.

There is no equivalent to Find for the online books.
If you still haven't found the information you want, repeat Steps 3 through 5 using some other relevant word.

You might find it useful to select the Contents tab in Help Topics and spend a few minutes looking through the contents to see what the help covers. Similarly, select each book in turn from the Revolve Online Books folder and look through their contents to see what they cover.

Here are some further tips:

The online help is mainly for quick help. To read about a subject in depth, look first in the appropriate online book, and if you don't find it look in the help. The books are all accessible from the help contents. There are separate indexes for the books, the Revolve help and the Readme help. The index for the books is called the Master Index because it covers all the books. The books have individual indexes as well.
You can print out the online books from your Web browser. Each Web page is one chapter; so if your Browser's print function prints one page, each print operation prints one chapter. To be certain of printing the text rather than the contents list, click first in the pane containing the text.
The Revolve CD-ROM contains the Adobe Acrobat Reader and an Adobe Acrobat file for each book, from which you can print the whole book in one operation. You are authorized to print one copy of each book for your own personal use.
Links in the online books are either to other chapters or books, or to the online glossary. To return, use your Web browser's Back button. You may have to click it twice to get the correct contents list back.
The online books have the contents in the left-hand frame and the text in the right-hand frame. On some browsers, when you click a link in the contents, you can get the text in a full frame by dragging the mouse a little before releasing the button. If you click a link in the text you get the contents of the target chapter in a full frame.
To get a popup menu with functions appropriate to an item, right-click the item. These functions often include What's This?.
If you have any problem installing or running Revolve, look in the Readme help to see if it's a known problem. From your Windows 95 or Windows NT Start menu, click Programs, then Micro Focus Revolve, then Readme. Information in the Readme help is listed in the index of the Readme help, not in the index of the Revolve help.
You will find MERANT's contact addresses and numbers either in the Readme help and on a separate sheet included in the product packaging.

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