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- This section describes each of Help on Wheels’s menus.
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- xThe Apple Menu
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- • About Help on Wheels…
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- This command opens Help on Wheels’s About window or brings it to the
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- xThe File Menu
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- • Close (Command-W)
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- This command closes the active (front) window. The help window cannot
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- Option as you click the “Return to Client” button.
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- • Save As… (Command-S)
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- This command saves help files as text files. The currently displayed help
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- file is saved as a text file. A standard new file dialog appears, asking you
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- These saved text files can be read by any Macintosh word processor or
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- editor. Which application owns the text file is determined by an option in
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- the Preferences window. By default, the owner is Microsoft Word.
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- When the help file is saved, only the text from the help file is saved,
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- without the pictures, and without any of the formatting. (Depending on
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- how the help file was constructed, there may be additional “save-only”
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- paragraphs of text in place of the pictures.) The primary purpose of this
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- feature is to let you save the text so that you can copy and paste it into
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- other documents. Ordinarily, the client’s author will grant you
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- permission to do this, if it is not for profit, and if you give appropriate
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- credit to the author. This is certainly true of the help file you are
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- reading. To be sure, read the disclaimer section at the top of the client’s
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- • Page Setup…
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- This command presents an expanded version of the standard Page Setup
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- dialog. The extra items in the bottom half of the dialog are used to
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- specify additional options for a printed help file. You can specify the font
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- and font size, all four margins, and an option to print the pages in reverse
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- Help on Wheels supplies reasonable default values for all of these options,
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- with different default values supplied for LaserWriters and ImageWriters.
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- Other kinds of printers may be treated as either LaserWriters or
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- ImageWriters. If you are using some kind of printer other than a
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- LaserWriter or ImageWriter, you should use the Page Setup command to
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- check the settings before printing and adjust them appropriately.
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- The minimum and maximum permitted font sizes are 4 and 24 points,
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- With large font sizes and/or large margins, there may not be enough
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- printable area on the page for Help on Wheels to print properly. In this
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- case, an alert is presented which informs you of the problem and gives
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- you advice on how to correct it. This problem should not occur with most
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- printed help files, even at 24 points, provided you do not increase the
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- default margins.
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- The Page Setup options are saved in the Help on Wheels Preferences file in
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- the Preferences folder within your System folder. You only need to set
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- them once; they will be remembered even when you quit Help on Wheels
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- • Print… (Command-P)
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- This command is used to print a formatted copy of a help file. It presents
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- The printed version of a help file has a title page, table of contents, page
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- headers, smart page breaks, and other nice formatting features.
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- Paragraphs are reformatted to fit the margins specified in the Page Setup
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- dialog. (Depending on how the help file was constructed, “print-only”
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- pictures and paragraphs of text may cause the printed version to look
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- • Print One
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- This command prints one copy of all pages of a help file. It does not
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- • Preferences…
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- This command opens the Preferences window or brings it to the front if it
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- • Quit (Command-Q)
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- This command quits Help on Wheels. Feel free to quit at any time. Next
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- time it starts up, whether it is by client request, or because you opened a
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- help file or the server itself through Finder, all help files belonging to
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- registered clients will be available, as they were before you quit.
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- xThe Edit Menu
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- • Undo (Command-Z)
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- This command is not used by Help on Wheels. It is present only for desk
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- • Cut (Command-X)
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- This command cuts selected text to the clipboard. It is used only with
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- • Copy (Command-C)
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- This command copies selected text to the clipboard. It is used only with
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- • Paste (Command-V)
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- This command inserts the contents of the clipboard at the current cursor
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- location or replaces the currently selected text by the contents of the
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- clipboard. It is used only with desk accessories and the Preferences
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- • Clear
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- This command clears the selected text in a desk accessory or in the
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- • About Balloon Help…
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- This command, supplied by System software, tells you how to use Balloon
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- Help. Help on Wheels supports Balloon Help.
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- • Show/Hide Balloons
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- This command, supplied by System software, lets you turn Balloon Help
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- on and off. Help on Wheels supports Balloon Help.
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- • Help on Wheels Help
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- This command makes Help on Wheels its own current client. Instead of the
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- help file you were seeing before, you will now see this help file.
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- Pressing the Help or Command-? key at any time does the same thing.
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- • Other Help (various)
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- There is one command in this menu for each help file which Help on Wheels
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- can display. The icon beside each name tells you what client supplied the
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- help file. If the icon is a help file document icon (a document with a
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- question mark on it), then this help file was opened directly from Finder,
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- and is not associated with any client. The check mark shows which help
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- file is currently on display.
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- NOTE: Icons do not appear if the startup disk is locked when Help on
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- As clients come and go, these commands will appear and disappear from
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- the menu automatically. A help file opened from Finder will not disappear
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- from the menu until you click the “Close Help File” button or quit the
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