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Opening Help
The Ayuda area with links to a variety of help topics is located below the Navegación area. Help topics related to the currently open configuration page are provided.
At many setting points, the symbol is located next to the text for the entry or list fields, radio buttons, or check boxes. If you use the cursor to point on a symbol, you see an information text with the accompanying help topic (tool tip). Click the symbol to open the associated help topic.
Click the help link in the Ayuda navigation bar or click next to the corresponding setting point.
Navigating via the Table of Contents
Click the Contents tab (this text may have a different name in some browsers) to go to the Table of Contents (the tab will be highlighted in yellow).
The Table of Contents will be displayed on the left-hand side of the help window as a directory tree.
By clicking on one of the topics in the Table of Contents you can open the help screen associated with it on the right-hand side of the help window.
The symbol indicates that additional topics are available under a specific topic. Click this symbol to expand the sub-topics. You can close the sub-topics again by clicking on the symbol.
Notes:
The Index area and the selected screen are separated by a vertical line or a scroll bar. To enlarge one of the areas (automatically makes the other areas smaller), click and hold the cursor above the separator line and slide the line to the location you want. This setting will only apply to the help window that is currently open.
The currently opened topic may be highlighted in the Table of Contents (for example, with a grey background). Scrolling through the Table of Contents may cause this highlighting to disappear. Click in the help window to display the currently open help screen in the Table of Contents.
 
Navigation using expanding texts
Some help texts contain expanding texts. Expanding text is indicated by a blue font and is underlined. In addition, the symbol appears after the expanding text.
You can expand the text by clicking or the line. Click or the line again to close the text.
Navigating via the Index
Click the Index tab (this text may have a different name in some browsers) to go to the index (the tab is highlighted in yellow).
The index will be displayed on the left-hand side of the help window.
Click a letter of the alphabet to go directly to the keywords under that letter.
Click a keyword to open the associated help screen on the right-hand side of the help window.
Notes:
The index area and the selected screen are separated by a vertical line or a scroll bar. To enlarge one of the areas (automatically makes the other areas smaller), click and hold the cursor above the separator line and slide the line to the location you want. This setting will only apply to the help window that is currently open.
Click the symbol in the help window to display the currently open help screen in the Table of Contents.
 
Navigating by Scrolling
Click to go to the next screen of the Instructions.
Click to go to the previous screen of the Instructions.
Navigating with the Back Key
Click to go back to the previously opened help screen.
Note: You may have to scroll back to the top of the current help screen to access the symbol.
Navigating via Links
Some help texts contain links to sub-topics or to more detailed information. Links are in blue font and underlined.
Click a link to go to the corresponding help screen.
Navigating via Breadcrumbs
The path to get to the currently open screen is displayed above the help text. The path consists of the topic titles behind which the corresponding topic is hidden. The higher-level topics are displayed in a blue font and the current topic is displayed in a grey font.
By clicking a higher-level topic you can go to the corresponding help screen.
Searching in Help
You can search the help screens for one or more terms.
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Click the Buscar tab (this text may have a different name in some browsers).
The tab is enabled (highlighted in yellow). The left-hand area of the help window contains an entry field for the keywords and a button for starting the search.
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Notes:
The character * can be used as a wildcard in a search. For example, a search using "teleph*" will return hits for "telephone", "telephone book", "telephoning", and other terms that begin with "teleph".
If you enter several terms, the help texts which contain all these keywords will be displayed irrespective of the sequence and context.
 
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Click Buscar (this text may have a different name in some browsers).
The help is being searched. This may take some time. When completed, the topics that contain the search term are listed. The sequence within this list is determined by the number of hits and the importance of the search term found. The higher the value displayed under In %, the more important the help text is to the search.
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The corresponding help screen opens on the right-hand side of the help window.
Notes:
Some browsers also mark the found places within the Help text.
The search area and the selected screen are separated by a vertical line or a scroll bar. To enlarge one of the areas (automatically makes the other areas smaller), click and hold the cursor above the separator line and slide the line to the location you want. This setting will only apply to the help window that is currently open.
Click the symbol in the help window to display the currently open help screen in the Table of Contents.
 
Printing from within the Help
You can print the currently displayed help screen using the help print function.
Notes:
If the displayed help screen includes texts that can be expanded, expand all the texts you want to print.
If you only want to print part of the displayed help screen, mark the relevant text by clicking and drawing with the left-hand mouse button. Afterwards, select Selección as the print area in the print dialogue box.
 
 
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Click Imprimir.
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