The Help window is useful as it is connected to many of the features in the COMSOL Desktop. This concept is called topic-based help or context help. You can also search and access all the HTML documentation content from this window. Show At the top of the Help window you find the tools and search functionality listed in the table below. Also, above the help text, a clickable breadcrumb trail shows the location of the displayed contents in the COMSOL documentation set. Click any part of the trail to move to that level in the COMSOL documentation. Table 1-1: The Help and Documentation Toolbars
Locate the Target area and choose Documentation window (the default) from the Show documentation in list to show the help contents in the Documentation window that is included in the COMSOL Desktop environment (default), or select External browser to display the help contents in a separate web browser. For further details on how to access and use the documentation, see the section The Documentation Window below. Similarly, using the Show help in list, you can choose between Help window (default) and External browser to show topic-based help in the Help window inside the COMSOL Desktop or in an external web browser, respectively. When showing topic-based help in an external browser, you need to press F1, choose Help>Help, or select the Help context menu item (when applicable) to trigger an update of the browser’s contents. The PDF-file target setting controls what happens when you click a PDF link on the COMSOL Documentation entry page. Choose In place to display PDF documents using the native browser’s PDF display settings, or choose New window to launch them in the default system application for PDF-files. On Windows, the native browser is always Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer. In the Source area, set the Location to Local to display help using locally installed help files or to Online to access help from the COMSOL website. For the Local option, edit the Documentation root directory file path as required. The default file paths are based on the platform:
If you connect to the internet through a web proxy, you can use the controls in the Proxy server settings area to specify the proxy server settings to use when communicating with the COMSOL website for displaying online help in integrated mode as well as for performing updates of the COMSOL Application Library and the COMSOL Part Library (see The Application Library Update Window and The Part Library Update Window for further details about these services). The Configuration list has the following options:
In the General section of the Preferences dialog, under Web browser (Windows and Linux only), you can choose which browser the COMSOL Multiphysics software should use to show pages on the COMSOL website and documentation when using the web browser mode. The following settings are available:
Which keys will display the Help task pane?F1 Displays the Excel Help task pane. Ctrl+F1 displays or hides the ribbon. Alt+F1 creates an embedded chart of the data in the current range. Alt+Shift+F1 inserts a new worksheet.
What happens when you click the More button at the Find and Replace dialog box?What happens when you click the More button in the Find and Replace dialog box? The dialog box expands to provide additional search options.
When selecting text in a Word document you can press this key to turn on the extend mode?Microsoft Word Select text with the Extend Selection keyboard shortcut. Move the cursor to the beginning of the text you want to select.. Press [F8]. (This highlights the EXT button in the status bar.). Use the keyboard or the mouse to move the cursor to the end of the selection.. Press [Esc].. Where is the breaks button located?Where is the Break key on the keyboard? On most keyboards, the Break key is on the right side of the top row of keys. On a typical U.S. keyboard, it is the alternate function of the Pause key. If so, pressing Ctrl + Pause may be required to activate Break.
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