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Lesson 3-14: Getting Help by
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When you don’t know how to do something in Windows or a Windows based program, don’t
despair—most programs come with a built-in help feature. Help is one of the greatest—and
sadly, the least used—feature of most Windows programs. There is often more information
about how to use a program under the Help feature than there is in the program manual! Many
people actually learn how to use entire programs by simply using the Help feature of the
program when they don’t know how to do something.
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Help allows you to try new, exciting things in programs all by yourself. It simply cannot be
stressed how important and useful the Help feature is. There are several ways you can get help
in Windows—we’ll look at them in the next couple of lessons.
For this lesson, imagine that you’ve seen several of your co-workers use different sized fonts
in their WordPad documents. You decide it’s time you learned how to change the size of fonts
in WordPad, so you decide to use the help feature.
Most Windows applications have a Help menu listed at the far right of the menu bar. You can
also open Help pressing the <F1> key.
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