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Using Help in the product

In-product Help is available through the Help menu. After you start the Adobe Help Viewer, click Browse to see Help for additional Adobe products installed on your computer.

To help you learn about multiple Adobe products, these features are available:

• You can search across Help for multiple products.

• Topics may contain links to topics in Help for other Adobe products or to additional content on the web.

• Some topics are shared across multiple products. If you see a Help topic with a Photoshop icon and a Contribute icon, you know that the topic either describes functionality that is similar in the two products or documents cross-product workflows.

Note: If you search for a phrase, such as "shape tool," enclose it in quotation marks to see only those topics that include all the words in the phrase.

Accessibility features

Adobe Help content is accessible to people with disabilities--such as mobility impairments, blindness, and low vision. In-product Help supports standard accessibility features, including the following:

• Text size can be changed with standard context menu commands.

• Links are underlined for easy recognition.

• If link text doesn't match the title of the destination, the title is referenced in the Title attribute of the Anchor tag. For example, the Previous and Next links include the titles of the previous and next topics.

• Content supports high-contrast mode.

• Graphics without captions include alternate text.

• Each frame has a title to indicate its purpose.

• Standard HTML tags define content structure, for screen reading or text-to-speech tools.

• Style sheets control formatting, so there are no embedded fonts.

Keyboard shortcuts for toolbar controls (Windows)

Each control in the toolbar for in-product Help has a keyboard equivalent:

Back button

Alt+left arrow

Forward button

Alt+right arrow

Print

Ctrl+P

About button

Ctrl+I

Browse menu

Alt+down arrow or Alt+up arrow to view Help for another application

Search box

(Windows) Ctrl+S to place cursor in Search box

Keyboard shortcuts for navigation (Windows)

To navigate in-product Help and view topics, use the following keyboard shortcuts:

• To move between panes, press Ctrl+Tab (forward) and Shift+Ctrl+Tab (backward).

• To move through and outline links within a pane, press Tab (forward) or Shift+Tab (backward).

• To activate an outlined link, press Enter.

• To make text bigger, press Ctrl+equal.

• To make text smaller, press Ctrl+hyphen.