Viewing the Product Help

Visual COBOL is configured to display the product help available online on the Micro Focus Customer Care website: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/support/documentation/.

You can view the Visual COBOL product help in one of the following ways:

Choose whether to view the help online or locally

You can configure Eclipse to show the Visual COBOL help either online or locally:

  1. In Eclipse, click Window > Preferences > Micro Focus > Help.
  2. Either disable or enable Use online documentation, depending on whether you want to see the documentation locally or online.

Online help (default)

  • Click Help > Micro Focus > Product Documentation.
  • Alternatively, press F1 inside the editor or from a UI part.

    This opens a browser with the Visual COBOL help.

Note: Ensure that you have an up-to-date version of your browser.

Local help

  1. Configure Eclipse to use local help as detailed above.
  2. Access the local help in one of the following ways:
    • Click Help > Help Contents to open the Help Viewer, then open the Micro Focus-branded documentation.
    • Alternatively, press F1 inside the editor or after clicking a dialog within the UI.