Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Now/Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Now (Microsoft Press)(X03-58607)(1998).ISO/media/chap00/tour.cc2

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0, Viewing the contents of the entire
8, course is the best way to get an overview of
10, the chapters, multimedia, labs, sample
13, code, and self-checks that make up this
15, course. You can work your way through the
17, chapters in sequence, or in any order
19, you wish. Click any topic to view its
23, contents. Double-click a chapter heading,
26, or any other topic with this book icon,
28, to expand the topic and view its
29, contents. You can use the Contents menu to
33, display only certain categories of
34, information, for example, labs or multimedia. As
39, you read through the topics, you will
40, come across icons that you can click to
42, display illustrations, as we're doing here,
45, or to view demonstrations, sample code,
47, expert advice, self-checks, or other
49, elements. Underlined words or phrases have
52, a popup glossary entry available. Or,
55, you can browse the entire glossary by
56, clicking the Glossary button. The
60, navigation buttons let you quickly move to the
62, Next and Previous topic, or step back to
65, the last topic you visited. When you're
67, browsing for general information in a
69, topic, click the Related Information button
71, to view a list of other topics that are
73, relevant to the current topic. You can
75, also go directly to any of the topics
77, you've visited by choosing History from
79, the Navigate menu. This book provides two
89, powerful ways to quickly locate specific
91, information you need: the Index, and
94, full-text search. Click the Index icon to
97, open the Index pane. When you click the
100, text box and type the first few letters
101, of the subject you want, the index
103, scrolls to the nearest matching index entry
105, and displays a list of related topics.
108, Click a topic to display it in the Topic
109, Area. Full-text search is a way to locate
114, specific words or phrases. Click the
116, Find icon, type a word or phrase, and
118, press Enter. When the search is complete,
122, click an entry in the list to display the
123, topic. The word or phrase you specified
126, will be highlighted in the topic. If
129, searching for a single word is too
130, imprecise you can enter a phrase in quotation
133, marks or do Boolean type searches by
135, adding an operand and a second qualifying
137, topic. You can quickly recall any of the
140, last ten searches by selecting it from the
142, Find list. For more find hints,
145, including more information about Boolean
147, operators, press F1 from the Find pane.This
155, course offers several information
157, management tools. The most powerful of these
159, tools is the Notebook, with which you can
161, add your own bookmarks and notes to
163, topics you've visited. To open the Notebook,
166, click the Notebook icon. The Notebook
168, lists all the topics to which you've
170, already added a bookmark. To add the current
172, topic to the list, click Add Item, and
175, then add your own notes if you wish. In
178, the Notebook list, notice that bookmarks
181, to which you've added notes appear in
182, the list with a note icon, like this one.
186, You can browse through the bookmarks and
187, edit your notes if you wish. Or, you
190, can delete or print one or more topics in
192, the Notebook list. Just select the
194, topics you want, and then click Delete or
196, Print. You can print your notes along with
199, the topics, or just print your notes.
202, You can also use the keyboard shortcuts or
204, the Paste button to copy text and paste
206, it into your Notebook or another
208, application. Finally, to jump to a bookmarked
211, topic, just select the topic and click
213, Go To Topic. The Notebook remains open,
216, which makes it easy to browse through the
218, topics you've bookmarked. Notice that
220, an icon appears in the Topic Area to
222, remind you that the current topic is
223, included in the Notebook. You can click this
226, icon to launch the Notebook. To work with
230, text in a topic outside of this
231, application, you can print the current topic, or
233, copy the topic text, or copy a selected
237, portion of it, to the Clipboard, by
239, clicking the Print or Copy buttons here. If
243, you copy a topic to another
244, application, the formatting of the text is
246, preserved in the other application, if it
248, supports formatted text. This course offers
257, several ways to help you work with the
258, application more productively and
260, comfortably. By default, you view the Navigation
263, Area on the left and the Topic area on
265, the right. If you wish, you can expand
267, the Topic area by dragging the border like
269, this. Or, to view only the Topic area,
274, click the Topic Only button. To return
278, to Normal view, click the Navigation And
280, Topic icon. If you find it more
284, comfortable to read larger-sized text, you can
286, enlarge the text in the Topic area using
288, the Magnify command. Or, if you want to
292, fit more of the text in a Topic window,
294, you can reduce it, like this. If you
298, have questions or problems working with
299, this application, detailed Help is just a
301, click away.
303, END