Using Help

The Empirica Signal online Help system provides information about pages and tabs, procedures for performing Empirica Signal activities, and conceptual and instructional topics. The help system is context-sensitive; that is, if you click the Help link on an Empirica Signal page, information about that page appears.

Help topics include underlined links that you can click to display more information.
Help topics remain open until you close them. You can leave the Help open in the background while you are using the application.

1. Click the Help command or click Help on an Empirica Signal page. Help for the page that you are viewing appears in a new browser window.

2. To view the main help page, click Show Table of Contents at the top of the help page. The main help window includes a toolbar with the following buttons:

Button	Description
CONTENTS	Display the table of contents for the Help system. 1. In the table of contents, expand a top-level entry in the table of contents by clicking either its name or the closed book icon before its name. The icon changes to . 2. Click a topic name or the question mark icon before its name to display the topic in the right-hand side of the Help window.
GLOSSARY	Display a list of Empirica Signal terms. Click a glossary term to display a definition in the bottom left corner of the window.
SEARCH	To find help topics containing a particular word or phrase, type in the word or phrase and click GO. Click a listed topic to display it.
INDEX	Display an alphabetized list of index entries for the Help system. Select a keyword from the list, or type a keyword in the field above the index entries. To go to the first occurrence of an index entry starting with particular characters, type the characters. When you click an index entry, if only one help topic is associated with the index entry, that topic is appears. If multiple topics are associated with the entry, a popup window shows the topics and you can select one.
BACK	Display the previous help topic.