Before you begin to use this online book, it would be helpful to understand how you can:

• Expand the Contents to see all available topics
  
• Obtain additional information for a highlighted word or phrase
  
• Use action bar choices.

How To Use the Contents

When the Contents window first appears, some topics have a plus (+) sign beside them. The plus sign indicates that additional topics are available.

To expand the Contents if you are using a mouse, select the plus sign (+). If you are using a keyboard, use the Up or Down Arrow key to highlight the topic, and press the plus key (+).

To view a topic, double-click on the topic (or press the Up or Down Arrow key to highlight the topic, and then press Enter).

How To Obtain Additional Information

After you select a topic, the information for that topic appears in a window. Highlighted words or phrases indicate that additional information is available. You will notice that certain words in the following paragraph are highlighted in green letters, or in white letters on a black background. These are called hypertext terms. If you are using a mouse, double-click on the highlighted word. If you are using a keyboard, press the Tab key to move to the highlighted word, and then press the Enter key. Additional information will appear in a window.

How To Use Action Bar Choices

Several choices are available for managing information presented in the M-Control Program/2 Programming Reference. There are three pull-down menus on the action bar: the Services menu, the Options menu, and the Help menu.

The actions that are selectable from the Services menu operate on the active window currently displayed on the screen. These actions include the following:

Bookmark

Sets a place holder so you can retrieve information of interest to you.

When you place a bookmark on a topic, it is added to a list of bookmarks you have previously set. You can view the list, and you can remove one or all bookmarks from the list. If you have not set any bookmarks, the list is empty.

To set a bookmark, do the following:

• Select a topic from the Contents.

• When that topic appears, choose the Bookmark option from the Services menu.

• If you want to change the name used for the bookmark, type the new name in the field.

• Select the Place radio button (or press the Up or Down Arrow key to select it).

• Select OK. The bookmark is then added to the bookmark list.
Search
Finds occurrences of a word or phrase in the current topic, selected topics, or all topics.

You can specify a word or phrase to be searched. You can also limit the search to a set of topics by first marking the topics in the Contents list.

To search for a word or phrase in all topics, do the following:

• Choose the Search option from the Services pull-down.

• Type the word or words to be searched.

• Select All sections.

• Select Search to begin the search.

• The list of topics where the word or phrase appears is displayed.
Print
Prints one or more topics. You can also print a set of topics by first marking the topics in the Contents list.

You can print one or more topics. You can also print a set of topics by first marking the topics on the Contents list.

To print the document Contents list, do the following:

• Select Print from the Services menu.

• Select Contents.

• Select Print.

• The Contents list is printed on your printer.
Copy
Copies a topic you are viewing to a file you can edit.

You can copy a topic you are viewing into a temporary file named TEXT.TMP. You can later edit that file by using an editor such as the System Editor.

To copy a topic, do the following:

• Expand the Contents list and select a topic.

• When the topic appears, select Copy to file from the Services menu.
The system copies the text pertaining to that topic into the temporary TEXT.TMP file.

For information on any of the other choices in the Services menu, highlight the choice and press the F1 key.

Options
Changes the way the Contents is displayed.

You can control the appearance of the Contents list.

To expand the Contents and show all levels for all topics, select Expand all from the Options menu.

For information on any of the other choices in the Options menu, highlight the choice and press the F1 key.

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