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Apart from this Getting Started book, all the
documentation is online only. You get to it from the Windows Start
menu, or from NetExpress's Help menu. This Getting Started
book is both online and in printed book form.
Much of the documentation is in the form of Windows help. The rest is in
the form of online books written as Web pages. You get to these from the
Windows Start menu or from the NetExpress 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 tooltip.
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 NetExpress
window.
- Try context help.
If you want information about a menu item or control, click the
Context Help button
on the toolbar, then click the menu item or control.
- Look in the help, using the help index.
If NetExpress is running, click Help Topics on the Help
menu. Otherwise, from the Start menu, click Programs,
then Micro Focus NetExpress, then NetExpress 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 an online book via a help
topic. 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 online books, using the Master Index.
From the Start menu, click Programs, then Micro
Focus NetExpress, then NetExpress Online Books. Then
select Master Index (Online Books). Then, in the left-hand
pane, click Master Index. Click the first letter of the word
you want at the top of the right-hand pane, then scroll through the
index to find the word.
- 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 the
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 will 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 NetExpress
Online Books folder and look through their contents to see what they
cover.
Here are some further tips:
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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 NetExpress Help,
the Readme Help, and the Help for individual options such as Dialog
System. The index for the books is called the Master Index because it
covers all the books. The books have individual indexes as well.
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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 frame
containing the text.
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The NetExpress 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.
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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.
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Two online books are especially worth looking at after this one.
The Solutions Guide guides you through developing
certain frequently required types of application. The Migration
Cookbook gives advice on migrating from other COBOL systems to
NetExpress.
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To get a popup menu with functions appropriate to an item,
right-click the item. These functions often include What's This?.
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To get the syntax for a COBOL reserved word visible in a text
window in the IDE, put the cursor anywhere within the word, then press
F1. Alternatively, right-click on the word and click Help
on the popup menu.
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If you have any problem installing or running NetExpress, look in
the Readme Help to see if it's a known problem. From your Windows Start
menu, click Programs, then Micro Focus NetExpress, then
Readme. You can also get to the Readme Help via the contents of
the NetExpress Help. Information in the Readme Help is listed in the
index of the Readme Help, not in the index of the NetExpress Help.
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For support, updates, and information on NetExpress, use WebSync,
a facility in NetExpress to access a Micro Focus Web site. To start
WebSync, click WebSync on the Help menu.
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To find Micro Focus's contact addresses and numbers, see the
Readme Help.
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