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Using online help
For the most extensive information on the ACID application, please refer to the help. You can access two varieties of help within the
application:
• Online help
• Show Me How tutorials
Online help
To access online help, choose Contents and Index from the Help menu or press F1.
Toolbar
Tabs
Information pane
The online help window has four tabs that you can use to find the information you need.
Tab Description
Contents
Provides a list of available help topics. Double-click a closed book (
) to open the
pages, and then click a topic page (
) to view it.
Index Provides a complete listing of the help topics available. Scroll through the list of
available topics or type a word in the Type in the keyword to find box to quickly
locate topics related to that word. Select the topic and click the Display button to
view it.
Search Allows you to enter a keyword and display all of the topics in the online help that
contain the keyword you have entered. Type a keyword in the Type in the word(s) to
search for box and click the List Topics button. Select the topic from the list and click
the Display button to view it.
Favorites Allows you to keep topics that you revisit often in a separate folder. To add a topic to
your favorites, click Add on the Favorites tab.
Show Me How tutorials
You can learn more about many of the features in ACID Music Studio by using the interactive Show Me How tutorials installed with
the software.
By default, Show Me How tutorials display upon startup of the application. However, you can access them at any time from the Help
menu by choosing Show Me How.
Tip:
To turn off automatic display of the Show Me How tutorials, clear the Show at Startup check box at the bottom of the tutorial
window.
Help on the Web
Additional information is available on the Sony Creative Software Inc. Web site. From the Help menu, choose Sony on the Web, and
choose the desired location from the submenu. The software starts your system’s Web browser and attempts to connect to the
appropriate page on the Sony Web site.
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