You can change the way you access help content. If you
need help and information topics while disconnected from the Intranet,
you can access help locally.
Before you begin
During this procedure, you download help content from the
web. Make sure you can connect to the Internet with the computer that
is to have local help. After this download, an Internet connection
is no longer required for help access.
When you start your product
later and you happen to be connected to the Internet, the local help
is updated automatically.
Procedure
- With your product open, click . The Preferences window opens.
- Disable the link to the Internet
site by selecting the web address in the Contents list,
and then clicking Disable.
- Click OK to
save the setting.
- With your product open, click . The Preferences window opens.
- Enable the link to the local help
by selecting the 127.0.0.1 address in the Contents list,
and then clicking Enable.
- Click OK to
save the settings.
- Click to open your help. Help is configured to access help content locally. You must
install the help content on your computer.
- You can download help two ways:
- Download help content automatically by closing and restarting
the product; then skip to step 13.
- Select available help from a list and download the content
from the Updater site by continuing to step 9.
- With your product open, click . The Updater site opens.
- In the Public Sites pane,
select the location of the help to download.
- The Available Features list
contains entries for the help that is available for download. Depending
on your network connection speed, generating the list might take a
few minutes. Select the help content that you need.
- Click Install.
The help content is downloaded and installed. A progress bar opens
and tracks the status of the download.
- When the download is completed, open
the help in the product by clicking . The
help that you selected is installed on your computer. When you start
the product, the files are updated automatically provided that an
Internet connection is available at startup.