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<a name="00000110"></a>The <span class="productname">LibreOffice</span> Help Window</h1>
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<p id="par_id3147143" class="paragraph"> The <span class="emph">Help</span> window shows the currently selected Help page.</p>
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<p id="par_id3154285" class="paragraphintable"><span class="avis">Moves to the first page of the current Help topic.</span></p>
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<p id="par_id3154366" class="paragraph">These commands can also be found in the context menu of the Help document.</p>
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<p id="par_idN10926" class="paragraph">You can copy from the <span class="emph">Help Viewer</span> to the clipboard on your operating system with standard copy commands. For example:</p>
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<p id="par_idN1092C" class="paragraph">On a Help page, select the text that you want to copy.</p>
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<p id="par_idN10933" class="paragraph">To search the current Help page:</p>
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<div class="notetext"><p>You can also click in the <span class="emph">Help</span> page and press <span id="swlnsysidm111" class="switchinline"><span hidden="true" id="MACidm112" class="MAC"><span class="emph">Command</span></span><span hidden="true" id="defaultidm114"><span class="emph">Ctrl</span></span></span><span class="emph">+F</span>.</p></div>
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<p id="par_idN10A22" class="paragraph">In the <span class="emph">Search for</span> box, enter the text that you want to find.</p>
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<p id="par_idN10A59" class="paragraph">To find the next occurrence of the search term on the page, click <span class="emph">Find</span> again.</p>
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<p id="par_id3148673" class="paragraph"><span class="avis">The navigation pane of the Help window contains the tab pages <span class="emph">Contents</span>, <span class="emph">Index</span>, <span class="emph">Find</span> and <span class="emph">Bookmarks</span>.</span></p>
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<p id="par_id3159149" class="paragraph"><span class="avis">The list box located at the very top is where you can select other <span class="productname">LibreOffice</span> Help modules.</span> The <span class="emph">Index</span> and <span class="emph">Find</span> tab pages only contain the data for the selected <span class="productname">LibreOffice</span> module.</p>
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<p id="par_id3145748" class="tablecontentintable">Displays an index of the main topics of all modules.</p>
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<p id="par_id3154188" class="tablecontentintable">Allows you to carry out a full-text search. The search will include the entire Help contents of the currently selected <span class="productname">LibreOffice</span> module.</p>
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<p id="par_id3156062" class="tablecontentintable">Contains user-defined bookmarks. You can edit or delete bookmarks, or click them to go to the corresponding pages.</p>
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