You can change the method that you use to access help. If you need to access help when you are disconnected from the Internet, you can download and use local help.
Before you begin
The computer on which you install the help must be connected to the Internet.
About this task
During this procedure, you download help content from the web. After you download the help content, an Internet connection is no longer required for help access. Later, if you start the product and are connected to the Internet, the local help is updated automatically.
Procedure
- With the help open, click .
- In the Preferences window,
from the Content list, select the web address
for the Internet site and click Disable.
- Click OK.
- With the help open, click .
- In the Preferences window,
from the Content list, select the address 127.0.0.1 and
click Enable.
- Click OK.
- To open the help, click . The help is configured to access
content locally. You must install the help content on your computer.
- You can download help in one of two ways:
- To download help content automatically, close and restart the product; then skip to step 13.
- To select the available help from a list and download the content from the updater site, continue to step 9.
- With the help open, click . The updater site opens.
- In the Public Sites pane,
select the location of the help to download.
- From the Available Content list,
select the help content to download. Depending on the speed
of your network connection, the list might take a few minutes to generate.
- Click Install. The help content is downloaded and installed.
- When the download is complete, open
the help in the product by clicking . The
help that you selected is installed on your computer. When you start
the product, the help content is updated automatically if the computer
is connected to the Internet.