Getting Online Help. Nuance OmniForm 4.0

Getting Online Help

Using This Manual

This manual is written with the assumption that you know how to work in the Windows environment. Please refer to your Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use dialog boxes, menu commands, scroll bars, drag and drop functionality, shortcut menus, and so on.

The following conventions are used in this manual.

Convention

Italicized text

Purpose

• Emphasizes menu commands, dialog box options, and labeled buttons

For example:

“Choose Open...

in the File menu.”

• Emphasizes new terms the first time they are used

• Emphasizes important words in a sentence

Note symbol

Warning symbol

Introduces a tip or an item of note

Introduces important information

Getting Online Help

In addition to using this manual, you can use OmniForm’s online help topics to learn about features and procedures. Online help is available after you install OmniForm.

OmniForm’s online help follows the conventions of Microsoft Windows

95 Help. Choose How to Use Help in OmniForm’s Help menu to get information on using Help.

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Welcome

Getting Online Help

Help menu

Use the commands in the Help menu to find information about

OmniForm topics.

OmniForm Help is the first command in the Help menu.

Use it to get contents and index listings for all Help topics.

Select OmniForm Help to obtain OmniForm’s main Help topics. Select

Getting Started to begin OmniForm’s tutorials .

Select How to Use Help to get Microsoft Windows Help topics that explain how to use and customize Help. Select Product Support to find out how to get product support services for OmniForm. Select Tip of the Day... ( if a form is open) to obtain tips to help you use OmniForm. Select About OmniForm to get information about your version of OmniForm.

OmniForm Tutorials

OmniForm has four online tutorials to step you through the basics. If you have never used OmniForm before or you need to review some of the procedures, please go through these tutorials.

• In the first tutorial, Load and Fill a Form , you will scan (or import) and fill a Sample form (included in the OmniForm package) by using the Form Assistant.

• In the second tutorial, Edit and Design a Form , you will scan or import the Sample form into OmniForm again and learn to use the basic buttons and menu commands, verify and correct OCR, and modify the form.

• In the third tutorial, Design Your Own Form , you will create a form and learn how to create objects, define calculations, customize the form, set the tab order, and add a graphic.

• In the fourth tutorial, The OmniForm Database , you will use the form that you created in the third tutorial and learn some basics about OmniForm’s database as well as how to create and manipulate database records.

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