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SW Help Topics

SW Help Topics

SW Help Topics

(OP)
Recently installed SW 2006
upgrading from 2005.

In 2005 click on Help -- gives first choice (as in 2006) of;  
SolidWorks Help Topics.

In 2005, this would bring up the
Search/Index window.

In 2006, the following
full screen comes up:

        SollidWorks Online User’s Guide

          What’s New in SolidWorks 2006
    
        SolidWorks User Interface

SolidWorks Reference

From here I cannot get the
Search/Index window to come up.

I know it is there because a friend who
debugged my computer  brought up the
Search/Index window but I forgot what
he did -- duhh-aah?

RE: SW Help Topics

Click on Customize to see if the "Help" option is selected.

cheers

RE: SW Help Topics

(OP)
CorBlimeyLimey,

do you mean Customize under Command Manager or Customize Menu under Help?

RE: SW Help Topics

Sorry, I meant the Customize Menu under the Help command ... when a document is open.

Also when you RMB on a empty toolbar area, then select Customize > Options and select both Show All options, all menu selections will be shown for every dropdown.

cheers

RE: SW Help Topics

(OP)
The menu under Help was/is complete.  If I click on Help/Customize Menu , all menu items are green checked.

It took me a while to understand  what the Customize/Options/Show-all does and I am still not too sure.  When I first did the Show All, I could not see that anything changed on the screen.  Therefore as a test I turned off the SolidWorks Help Topics under Help/Customize Menu then turned it back on via RMB empty toolbar area/Customize/Options/Show All.

The problem is not that I cannot access SolidWorks Help Topics under the Help drop down menu.  But when I click that menu item (SolidWorks Help Topics), I do not get the Index/Search window.

Maybe in SW 2005 I had to Help/SolidWorks Help Topics /SolidWorks Online User’s Guide.  I don’t recall.  But if I go to SolidWorks Help Topics in SW 2006, I still do not get the Index/Search window.  What I get is this:

Conventions. Describes the font conventions and buttons used in help
Access to Help. Lists the ways to access the help, as well as helpful hints for searching
Resources. Lists other SolidWorks documents
What's New. Lists the new functionality in this software release as well as links to other topics with more information

Here is an excerpt from Access to Help:  “Once in the help, you can use the TOC, Index, or Search tab to locate a topic.”  This (TOC, Index, or Search) window is what I cannot find in SW 2006.  F1 does not do it either.

RE: SW Help Topics

(OP)

Answer

The drag-bar, if that is what you call it, was drug to the far left of the screen.  This is the drag-bar for the Contents, Index, Search  (CIS) window which is within the window displaying:

        SollidWorks Online User’s Guide

          What’s New in SolidWorks 2006
    
       SolidWorks User Interface

SolidWorks Reference

The above displayed window comes up after Help/SolidWorks Help Topics.

I finally noticed two right-left horizontal arrows just below the Hide,Back,Print menu bar.  These arrows are usually at the bottom of the CIS window whenever the right hand dragable bar is covering any text in the CIS window.  This allows you to move the text right or left within the CIS window.

Actually if the drag-bar is fully to the left, then only the right pointing arrow is visible but as you drag the bar slowly to the right, the left arrow appears and then dagging a little further to the right, the arrows jump to the bottom of the CIS window and a horizontal drag-bar for moving text appears.

Normally we think of a window as something you look through.  However in MS Windows, sometimes a window covers something else because you can't see through it.  

Fortunately SW has a Transparency tool to make surfaces act like real windows.  I think this is soo cool and makes me wonder how the programmers make this trick stuff happen!

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