Windows Basics:
Win98 Help Contents

Step-by-Step: Win98 Contents

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What you will learn:

to open Windows Help to navigate the Contents tree to find a topic to navigate the topics and related topics

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To work with Help in WinXP, skip to WinXP Help.
To work with Help in Windows Vista, skip to Windows Vista Help.

Start with: with Taskbar showing.

1. Click on the Start button to open the Start menu.
    
2. Click on Help. You will see the Windows Help dialog box for Windows 98. Which tab is on top depends on which one was used last. If it is not already displayed, click on the Contents tab to show the list of topics.
   
   
   
   
3. In the Contents tab, move your mouse over the topic Exploring Your Computer.

   The words change color and the mouse pointer changes to a hand. This shows that the words are a link. Clicking on them will do something. In this case, the list of topics will expand to show subtopics.
    

4.  Click on the topic Exploring Your Computer. The book icon changes to an open book and a list of subtopics appears underneath the line you clicked.
    
   
5.  Click on the topic
   The Windows Desktop
    
6.  Click on the topic
   Working in Windows the Web Way
    
7. Click on the document
   Using the mouse on the new desktop. Finally, a document opens in the right pane.
   
    
   
8. Read the page.

   At the bottom of an article you will often see a list of related topics. These are also links.
    

   
   
9. Click on the single item listed under Related Topic at the bottom of the article in the right pane.

   A new topic is displayed in the right pane. The left pane does not change.
    

10. Click the Back button at the top of the window. You are returned to the previous topic.
     
11. Click the Forward button. You are returned to the topic you just left.
     
12. Practice navigating through the Help topics. Pick some topics that look interesting. Use the Back and Forward buttons as you go along. You can learn quite a lot while by just wandering around.