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Rel. 1.7.0 (February 2013)
3 Useful Information before reading this user manual.
3.1 Help

The HELP function available on the bottom of the main MENU of OpenHospital allows
you to access offline this document.
3.2 Legenda
In this document will be used following conventions:
 When in the text of this document you find a word written in bold and highlighted in grey –
like Pharmacy or New – it indicates a function of the application and it is also called
“button”. Pharmacy is a button.
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When you find a text written in bold Italic (as an example Laboratory browsing) it indicates
the screen with name “Laboratory browsing” (see example below). Each screen of the
application is called window. Laboratory browsing is a window.

When you find a text written in bold as - Search patient visits – it indicates a function of
the application, or an area of the window (as an example Data table).
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Each button has always one letter with an underscore. You can select the functionality
offered by the button pressing the “Alt” key and at the same time the “underscored” key (in
the example of Pharmacy you have to press “Alt” and “P”). This behaviour is common all
over the application and allows the user to operate (almost) without the use of the mouse. In
the entire document “Alt” key and the “P” key will be indicated as “Alt + P”.
Click with the
mouse on the button
or digit “Alt+P” to
enter the Pharmacy
function
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Each screen of the application is called “window”. Most complex windows of the
application are composed by more than one area. Areas can be Selection panel, Data table
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