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Lesson 1.5: Getting Help In Project

   

 

 

Regular help topics will probably make up the bulk of your search results. These also open in their own window, but they open right on top of Project, like this:

 

 

The great thing is that the Help window will appear as its own entry in the taskbar, so it can be minimized separate from Project. This lets you tuck it away until you need it again. You can also resize it to make it fit around your document.

 

Let’s take a closer look at that help window.

 

 

Here’s a brief description of each of the elements:

  1. Use these buttons to minimize, maximize or close the Help window.
  2. Use the first button to make your help window appear as a pane on the right hand side of the Project screen. Click it again to return it to a square window. Or, you can use the arrows to move to the previous or next help result. Last but not least, click the Print icon to print out this help result.
  3. Some words have definitions; they are shown as light blue text in the help window. (Some samples are circled in blue.) You can click on these words for a definition to appear in brackets after the word. Or, you can click Show All to show all the definitions in the help result. (Not all help results will contain definitions.)
  4. Click the See Also link to see links to other topics that might be helpful. (Not all help results will have this link.)
  5. Use this section to send feedback to Microsoft about this help result.

 

You can see that there are many types of resources within a help result; it’s a good idea to get familiar with them as they can help you learn a lot about Project.