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1.10. Getting Help in Mac OS X

It's a good thing you've got a book about Mac OS X in your hands, because the only user

manual you get with Mac OS X is the Help menu. You get a Web browser–like program

that reads a set of help files that reside in your System Library folder.

Tip: In fact, you may not even be that lucky. In Leopard, the general-information Help

page about each topic is on your Mac, but thousands of more nichey or more technical

pages actually reside online, and require an Internet connection to read.

You're expected to find the topic you want in one of these three ways:

• Use the new Search box.When you click the Help menu , a tiny search box

appears just beneath your cursor (Figure 1-28). You can type a few words here to

specify what you want help on: "setting up printer," "disk space," whatever.

Tip: You can also hit -Shift-/ (that is, -?) to open the Help search box.

And you can change that keystroke, if you like, in System Preferences

Keyboard & Mouse.

Figure 1-28. In Leopard, you don't have to open the Help program to begin a

search. No matter what program you're in, typing a search phrase into the

box shown here produces an instantaneous list of help topics, ready to read.

The menu now becomes a list of Apple help topics pertaining to your search. Click

one to open the Help browser described next; you've just saved some time and a

couple of steps.