Help

On the Help preferences page, you can indicate how to display help books.

Option

Description

Default

Current web browser adapter The help browser uses an adapter to display the on-line help in a web browser. If there are multiple adapters capable of opening a browser on your system, the one that is selected will be used to display help. depends on operating system
Custom browser command If "Custom Browser" is selected from the browser adapter list, this field is used to specify command that will launch the browser program. If URL is not the last parameter accepted by the browser program, use "%1" string to indicate position of the URL in the command. mozilla %1 (the field is disabled)

Here is what the Help preferences page looks like:  

Help Preference Page

Note: Selection performed on this page can affect how the help view is presented. If the selected browser is not fully compatible with Internet Explorer or Mozilla, or has JavaScript disabled, the help view shown in the browser might be a simplified version.

Related tasks
Changing the browser used by the help system

Related reference
Help View

 
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