Quick Guide Owner's manual

ETC Quick Guide
Cobalt Nomad, Client, & Offline Editor
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Cobalt Help System/User Manual
Press F1 to open the Cobalt Help system. This help system contains the entire contents of the user
manual. This includes instructions on creating new play files, saving your data and exiting Cobalt,
opening and playing back plays, as well as how to use all of the Cobalt system's various functions.
To navigate the help system:
• Use the up and down arrows on your keyboard to page through the help system.
• Pressing F1 + ANY KEY will give you a shortcut to search in the help system.
• Yellow underlined text indicates a hyperlink to another page of the help system - click these links
to jump to that part directly.
• When focused on a help tab, click the magnifying glass icon at the top of the help tab to open a
text search dialog. Type your search term into the dialog then click the {Modify} box or press the
ENTER/RETURN key on your keyboard to start the search. Your search results will appear as a
list of hyperlinks to pages that contain that text or a related concept.
• When focused on a help tab, press click the “star +” icon at the top of the help tab to create a
“Favorite” inside the help system. You can add your own note to this bookmark, and then later you
can come back to this page directly from the Browser using the Help Favorites node, or from within
the help tab by clicking on the “many stars” icon.
The help system will describe a lot of navigation using keys on the console facepanel - many of these
actions can be performed simply using a mouse as well.