Accessing Help Topics
The Vulcan online help can be launched using one of the following methods:
- Select the Vulcan Help option (under the Help menu).
- Press the F1 key.
- Select the Start Vulcan Help
icon from the Standard toolbar. - Select the Help button from a displayed panel.
Searching for topics
AND
Searches for pages containing both words.
Example: Â create AND layer would search for topics that contain both of these words. If you wanted to find only those topics that contain the phrase create layer, then you would use quotation marks, that is "create layer".
OR
Searches for pages containing at least one of the specified words.
Example: Â create OR layer would search for topics that contain the word create or the wordlayer or any of the grammatical variations, for examplecreating, created, layers etc.
NEAR
Finds all topics where the specified words exist in eight words of one another.
NOT
Searches for topics that contain the first word but not the second.
Example: Â create NOT layer would search for all topics that contain the wordcreate, but not the wordlayer.
Wildcards
The ? (single character) and * (multi-character) wildcard can be used to substitute unknown characters.
Example: Â creat* will find create, created, creating whereas creat? will find create.
