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Using Help

About the built-in help features
Using Help for vision- and motor-impaired users
Opening the Help documentation
Using the How To pages

About the built-in help features

Adobe® Reader® 7.0 offers many built-in features to assist you while you work, including
the Help window you're using right now:
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Help documentation.
How To pages. (See Using the How To pages.)
Tool tips,which identify the various buttons, tools, and controls in the work area by name.
These labels appear when you place the pointer over the item you want to identify. Tool
tips are also available in some dialog boxes.
Help buttons in some dialog boxes. When you click these Help buttons, the Help window
opens with the related topic.
You can also consult online resources. Choosing Help > Online Supportleads to links for
software downloads, product information, support documents, and more. The Help menu
also contains links to various online resources and references.
Note: There is no printed user manual for this product. Overviews, explanations,
descriptions, and procedures are included in Help.

Using Help for vision- and motor-impaired users

Vision- and motor-impaired users can use theAccessibility Setup Assistant to change how
PDF documents appear on-screen and are handled by a screen reader, screen magnifier, or
other assistive technology. The first time you start Adobe Reader, the Accessibility Setup
Assistant starts if Adobe Reader detects that assistive technology is running on your
system. (See Setting accessibility preferences.)
Single-key accelerators and keyboard shortcutsmake document navigation simpler. Some
of the more common keyboard shortcuts are described here. For a complete list of
keyboard shortcuts, see About keyboard shortcuts. For additional information on how
Adobe products enhance electronic document accessibility, visit the Adobe website at
http://access.adobe.com.
To activate single-key accelerators:
1. Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows®) or AdobeReader > Preferences (Mac OS), and
click General on the left.
2. Select Use Single-Key Accelerators To Access Tools.
3. Click OK to apply the change.
To open the How To window:
Press Shift+F4.
To close the How To window:
Do one of the following:
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(Windows) Press Shift+F4 or Esc.
(Mac OS) Click the Close button.

To open or close Adobe Reader Help:
Do one of the following:
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To open Help,press F1. In Mac OS, you can also press Command+?.
To close Help, press Ctrl+W or Alt+F4 (Windows), or click the Close button.
Click the Search or Index tab to use that feature. In Windows, press Ctrl+Tab to cycle
forward through the tabs, or press Shift+Ctrl+Tab to cycle backward through the tabs.
Press F6 to move between the document pane and the navigation pane. In the Index tab,
you can type anentry into the Select Index Entry text box. The list scrolls to the first
match to the text string you type. Click a link to go to that topic.

Opening the Help documentation

Adobe Reader 7.0 includes complete, built-in documentation in a fully accessible Help system. The
Help documentation provides explanations about the tools, commands, concepts, processes, and
keyboard shortcuts. You canprint individual Help topics as needed. (See Printing Help topics.)
Adobe Reader 7.0 Help opens in a separate window with two panes: a navigation pane on the left and a
topic pane on the right. You use the tabs in the navigation pane to find the topics you want to read. For
example, you click the Contents tab to show the list of topics available in Help. You click a title in the
list to open thattopic in the topic pane. For more information on using the Contents, Search, and Index
panels, see Using the Help navigation pane to find topics.

Adobe Reader 7.0 Help A. Contents, Search, and Index tabs in the Help navigation pane B. Help topic pane

You can drag the vertical bar between the navigation pane and the topic pane to change their widths.
You can drag the lower right corner to resize...