Chapter 8. Getting Help for the Big X
In This Chapter
Using the Mac OS X Help Center
Searching for specific help
Getting help in applications
Finding other help resources
Whether the voice echoes from a living room, home office, or college computer lab, it's all too familiar: a call for help. No matter how well written the application or how well designed the operating system, sooner or later you're going to need support. That goes for everyone from the novice to the experienced Mac owner to the occasional e‐mail user to the most talented software developer.
In this short but oh‐so‐important chapter, I lead you through the various help resources available within Mac OS X as well as native Mac OS X applications. I show you how to tap additional resources from Apple, and I also point you to other suppliers of high‐quality (and even questionable) assistance from sources on the Internet and in your local area.
Displaying the Help Viewer Window
Your first line of defense is the Mac OS X Help Viewer, as shown in Figure 8-1 . To display the Help Viewer from the Finder menu, click Help and choose Mac Help; or, you can press the ⌘+? keyboard shortcut (or, if you think about it, ⌘+Shift+/, or the forward slash key keyboard shortcut). This Help menu is context‐sensitive, so it contains different menu items when you're working inside an application.
Figure 8.1. Figure 8-1: The reservoir of Leopard assistance: ...
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