Using Help in the product

In‑product Help is available through the Help menu. After you start the Adobe Help Viewer, click Browse to see Help for additional Adobe products installed on your computer.

These Help features facilitate cross-product learning:

Topics may contain links to the Help systems of other Adobe products or to additional content on the web.
Some topics are shared across two or more products. For instance, if you see a Help topic with an Adobe Photoshop® CS3 icon and an Adobe After Effects® CS3 icon, you know that the topic either describes functionality that is similar in the two products or describes cross‑product workflows.
You can search across the Help systems of multiple products.

If you search for a phrase, such as “shape tool,” enclose it in quotation marks to see only those topics that include all the words in the phrase.

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Adobe Help

A.: Back/Forward buttons (previously visited links)
B.: Expandable subtopics
C.: Icons indicating shared topic
D.: Previous/Next buttons (topics in sequential order)

Accessibility features

Adobe Help content is accessible to people with disabilities—such as mobility impairments, blindness, and low vision. In‑product Help supports these standard accessibility features:

The user can change text size with standard context menu commands.
Links are underlined for easy recognition.
If link text doesn’t match the title of the destination, the title is referenced in the Title attribute of the Anchor tag. For example, the Previous and Next links include the titles of the previous and next topics.
Content supports high-contrast mode.
Graphics without captions include alternate text.
Each frame has a title to indicate its purpose.
Standard HTML tags define content structure for screen reading or text-to-speech tools.
Style sheets control formatting, so there are no embedded fonts.

Keyboard shortcuts for Help toolbar controls (Windows)

Back button: Alt+Left Arrow
Forward button: Alt+Right Arrow
Print: Ctrl+P
About button: Ctrl+I
Browse menu: Alt+Down Arrow or Alt+Up Arrow to view Help for another application
Search box: Ctrl+S to place the insertion point in the Search box

Keyboard shortcuts for Help navigation (Windows)

To move between panes, press Ctrl+Tab (forward) and Shift+Ctrl+Tab (backward).
To move through and outline links in a pane, press Tab (forward) or Shift+Tab (backward).
To activate an outlined link, press Enter.
To make text bigger, press Ctrl+equal sign.
To make text smaller, press Ctrl+hyphen.

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Using Help in the product

Accessibility features

Keyboard shortcuts for Help toolbar controls (Windows)

Keyboard shortcuts for Help navigation (Windows)

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