Conventions Used in Help

	This is the normal icon for closed books in the help system.
	This is the standard icon for topics in the help system
	This icon means that you are being redirected to a topic somewhere else in the help system that is relevant to the current section
	This icon represents a topic that contains particularly important information
	This icon is used for books containing information about version controlled items
	Links to web pages elsewhere on the internet are marked with this icon

Help also uses a number of typographic conventions within the topics to make them more easily understandable.

The main ones are described below.

Section headings are always shown in this colour.

Links to other information may mean links to other topics, additional popup information (popup link), other help files, or external websites. If you have previously followed the links they will be displayed in the same colour.

Click on the link below to see an example of text popup

Text popupThis is an example of a text popup.

Menu items or buttons that have to be clicked in the user interface are shown like this. Menu items displayed like this - Open | Open master database - with a vertical bar between items are on a fly-out menu.

Show image

This is the usual style for a dialog title when not linked to other information.

This is a the style for a field name and the style for a field value.

This is the style for a menu item.

This is the style for a button.

Example of References

This is the style for an equation (when not in an image): a = b + c

Keys or key combinations, such as Ctrl+Enter, that you have to press on the keyboard are shown in small capitals.

Fragments of code, for example scripts for use with importers are in a special font.

Captions for images and graphs are in italics.