As in other Windows-based applications, Help provides keyboard equivalents for most mouse actions. The following tables describe the keys you can use in Help.
Use the following keys to get Help from the application.
| To | Press |
| Start Help and display the Contents for the application. If the Help window is already open, pressing F1 displays the Contents for the How To Use Help topics.
If the application provides context-sensitive Help (such as Program Manager and File Manager), pressing F1 displays a Help topic on the selected command or dialog box option. This feature is available only if the application supports it. It is available in all of the applications included with Windows. |
F1 |
| Change to Help mode so you can choose the command, click the screen region, or press the key or key combination on which you want Help.
This feature is available only in certain applications (such as Microsoft Word for Windows). It is not available in any of the applications included with Windows. |
SHIFT+F1 |
Use the following key equivalents for the Help buttons.
| To | Press |
| Display the Help Contents for the application | C |
| Display the Search dialog box, which lists all the search keywords for the application | S |
| Go back to the last topic you viewed | B |
| Display the History window, which lists the last 40 topics you have viewed | T |
| Display the next topic in a browse sequence (Optional Browse >> button) | period (.) |
| Display the previous topic in a browse sequence (Optional Browse << button) | comma (,) |
Use the following keys while working in Help.
| To | Press |
| Select a hot spot. Pressing TAB repeatedly moves you clockwise to other hot spots in the topic. | TAB |
| Select a hot spot. Pressing SHIFT+TAB repeatedly moves you counterclockwise to other hot spots in the topic. | SHIFT+TAB |
| Select all the hot spots in a topic. | CTRL+TAB |
| Copy the entire contents of the current Help topic directly to the Clipboard without displaying the Copy dialog box. Or copy an entire annotation or a portion of it to the Clipboard. | CTRL+INS |
| Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the Annotation dialog box. | SHIFT+INS |
| Switch between the main Help window and the History window. | ALT+F6 |
| Close the Help window. | ALT+F4 |
Use the following keys to scroll text within the scrolling region of the Help window.
| To scroll | Press |
| Up one line | UP ARROW |
| Down one line | DOWN ARROW |
| Right one character | RIGHT ARROW |
| Left one character | LEFT ARROW |
| To the leftmost position | HOME |
| To the rightmost position | END |
| To the first line in the scrolling region of the topic | CTRL+HOME |
| To the last line in the scrolling region of the topic | CTRL+END |
| Up one window | PAGE UP |
| Down one window | PAGE DOWN |
| To the beginning of the topic | CTRL+PAGE UP |
| To the end of the topic | CTRL+PAGE DOWN |