When you tire of clicking and skimming Help Center's 10,000 pages, you can use the search function. It's fast, easy, and usually finds a wide range of related topics, which can acquaint you with features that you were unaware of.
To search for help topics:
In Help Center, type or paste a search phrase in the Search text box; then press Enter or click the green arrow (Figure 3.4 ).
Help Center conducts the search and divides the results into three categories.
Click one of the categories listed in the Search Results panel (Figure 3.5 ):
Suggested Topics lists pages with
keyword matches. Microsoft assigns invisible keyword tags to help topics.
Full-Text Search Matches lists pages that contain the literal phrase you entered.
Microsoft Knowledge Base (on the internet) lists relevant articles that appear on Microsoft's massive support web site.
If your search phrase contains multiple words, Help Center searches for pages that contain all the words. A search for
keyboard shortcuts, for example, yields pages that contain
keyboard and
shortcuts, though not necessarily adjacent in the text. To find an exact phrase, enclose it in quotes ("keyboard shortcuts" ).
The toolbar just above the topic panel lets you add the page to your help Favorites; shrink the Help Center window; print the topic; or locate the topic in the Help Center table of contents.
Search terms aren't case-sensitive.
Help Center ignores a long list of articles, prepositions, and other noise words:
a, the, of, like, from, and so on.
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