The Collabora Office Help

Collabora Office Help pages are displayed in your system default web browser.

Hjälpen refererar till programmets standardinställningar i ett system som är inställt på standardvärden. Beskrivningar av färger, musaktiviteter och andra konfigurerbara objekt kan avvika från ditt program och system.

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The Help system for all versions of the software is based on the same source files. Some of the functions described in Help may not be included in this particular distribution. Some features specific to a distribution may not be mentioned in this Help.


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Help pages of Collabora Office Extensions still use the old Help system. The old Help system help pages are available from here.


The Collabora Office Help pages features

The Module List

Located on the top of the page, click to open the drop-down list and select the Collabora Office module to display the module Help main entry page.

The Language List (Help online only).

Available only in the online version, select the language to display the current help page.

The Help Index

The Help Index displays a list of keywords for all Collabora Office modules. Click on any keyword in the list to open the linked Help page.

Searching the Help Index

Type the keyword in the Search text box. The search is performed immediately, while you type the keyword.

The search results are displayed as a filtered list of matches grouped by module name. The search results also include near matches. The matching parts of the search term are highlighted in each result.

The GLOBAL heading indicates a match for keywords relevant to more than one Collabora Office module. For example, cell borders applies to spreadsheets cells as well as text and presentation table cells or frames.

Use the arrow icons on the bottom of the Index to scroll forward or backward the Index entries or filtered result list.

Contents - The Main Help Topics

Displays an index of the main topics of all modules.

Using the browser for Collabora Office Help

Navigating in Help pages

Use the Back and Forward buttons of the browser to navigate between pages. In most browsers, a long click on the Back button displays a dropdown list of previously visited pages and a long click on the Forward button display a list of visited pages after the current one.

Bookmarking Help pages

Use the bookmark feature of the browser for quick access to relevant Help pages. To bookmark a page in most browsers:

  1. Open the Bookmark menu of the browser,

  2. select Add bookmark, or

    Press +D on most browsers.

  3. Enter the name, folder and meaningful tags for the bookmark.

  4. Close the bookmark dialog of the web browser.

Help Pages Navigation History

Each Help page visited is recorded in the web browser history. To open the navigation history:

  1. Choose the History menu of the web browser,

  2. Select Show History.

  3. Click on any entry of the history main window to open the corresponding help page.

Copying Help contents to clipboard

You can copy contents from the Help page to the clipboard on your operating system with standard copy commands. For example:

  1. On a Help page, select the text that you want to copy.

  2. Press +C.

Some contents in help pages can be copied to the system clipboard with only one mouse click. In these cases a tooltip appears when hovering the mouse on the copy-enabled contents. For example, the following line is copy-enabled:

=SUM(A1:A10)

Searching in current page

To search in the current Help page:

  1. Open the Search tool in your web browser, which is usually accessible using the +F shortcut.

  2. In the Search for box, enter the text that you want to find.

  3. Select the search options that you want to use.

  4. Press Enter.

To find the previous occurrence of the search term on the page, click on the Up arrow. To find the next occurrence, click on the Down arrow.

Contents general information

Symboler i dokumentationen

De tre symbolerna används för att göra dig uppmärksam på ytterligare information som du kan ha nytta av.

Varningssymbol

Ikonen Viktigt! anger viktig information som rör data- och systemsäkerhet.


Symbolen Info

Ikonen Info anger extra information: till exempel, alternativa sätt att nå ett visst mål.


Symbolen Tips

Ikonen Tips anger tips för att arbeta med programmet på ett mer effektivt sätt.


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