Navigating the Documentation CD-ROM

After you install and start the Documentation CD-ROM, you can look at the list of available documents and begin reading. Supported features, menu structures, options, and terminology are similar, but not identical, on all platforms.

Because the user interface differs slightly on each platform, this booklet does not include detailed instructions on how to navigate through the search and display environment. Rather, it provides an overview of the CD-ROM's features and functions. Use your online help for more information about the search and display features supported on your platform.

Using Online Help

Help is available at any time by clicking on the Help button in the document button bar. (Refer to the section "Document Button Bar" earlier in this booklet.) Before you get started with Cisco's online documentation, refer to the online help for a detailed explanation of the Documentation CD-ROM features that are supported on your platform.

You can also use online help while you are reading online documents and searching through the array of information available on the CD.

The Documentation CD-ROM contains a series of interconnected documents that you navigate by clicking on hypertext links and using the navigation tools--the toolbar with navigation buttons, and the document button bar. In addition, the package offers a powerful search facility to allow you to jump directly to the information that interests you.

The CD also provides several ways to return to documents that you have previously looked at. A history facility allows you to keep track of the documents that you have looked at in the last 60 days. You can also save the location of documents that you reference regularly by adding them to a bookmarks list.

Hypertext Links

Hypertext links are underlined words or entries in a document or table of contents. When you click on underlined text, the linked text will automatically be displayed.

For example, click on "About This Manual" to display that section.

If you are viewing a document but the section you want is not displayed, select the Table of Contents button from the document button bar (located at the top and bottom of each document) to look at an outline of the document. Click on the title of interest, and jump to the information you need.

Illustrations

A small version of each illustration in documents is displayed within the text. Adobe Acrobat Reader, once configured (see the section "Configuring Adobe Acrobat Reader as a Helper Application" later in this document), allows you to click on the illustration to see a higher resolution, scalable version of the illustration in its own window.

Viewing Portable Document Format Files

If you have Internet connectivity, documentation on the Documentation CD-ROM is available from Cisco's Web site in Adobe's portable document format (PDF) file format. With this feature you can print and view individual document pages using the provided Adobe Acrobat Reader application. PDF files that are printed and viewed using Acrobat will have the same high-quality appearance as the original printed documents.

Watch for the PDF icon shown below when you are browsing HTML documents on the CD. This icon indicates that the document you are viewing is available as a PDF file. Simply click on the icon to display the PDF version of the document you are viewing. The Adobe Acrobat Reader will launch automatically, and the PDF version of the document will appear in a window.

To print a PDF file, choose Print... from the File menu and specify the range of pages you want to print.

Configuring Adobe Acrobat Reader as a Helper Application

The Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the software programs installed when you install the Documentation CD-ROM. You might need to configure Netscape Navigator to use Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files.

Each platform requires different information to configure helper applications. To change configuration settings, use the Options menu to select General Preferences. Select the Helpers tab, then click New.

You might need some or all of the information in the following table to configure Netscape Navigator:

Type of Information	Data
Description	PDF files
MIME type	application/pdf
Suffix	.pdf
Encoding	Binary
Helper application	Select the location of the Adobe Acrobat Reader application
Action	Use a helper application
Type	PDF

Searching Documents

On the CD, you can search within a single document for a word or phrase, or you can search through multiple documents.

Searching Within a Single Document

To search within a single document for a specific word or phrase, use the Find command as follows:

Select Find from the Edit menu or click on the Find icon in the browser toolbar.
Enter the text you want to find in the Find field.

To find text with specific capitalization, check the Case Sensitive box. To search backward through the document, check Find Backwards.
Click on the Find button. If the text is found, it is highlighted. If the text is not found, an error message is displayed.
Select Find Again in the Edit menu to find the next occurrence of the same text.

Searching Through Multiple Documents

You can also search for text through multiple documents using the Verity multidocument search facility provided on the CD, as follows:

Click on the Search button on the document button bar.
Select a group to search from the list on the left. You can choose to search all of the CD, or you can select subsets of the data from the list displayed.

Note You can also select Search Help for more search tips.

Enter the text for your search in the box on the right.
Click on the Search button to execute the search and display a list of hypertext links to the search hits.
Click on an item in the search hit list to display the document. Search results are highlighted in the body of the text.
Highlighted text is marked on either side by forward and backward arrows. Click on the forward arrow to move to the next occurrence of the item. Click on the back arrow to move to the previous occurrence of the item.

Using Bookmarks

You can use bookmarks to maintain a list of files you refer to often.

To add the file that you are currently looking at to the bookmark list, select Bookmarks on the menu bar, and then select Add Bookmark.

To open a file in the bookmark list:

Select Bookmarks from the menu bar.
Select the file you want to open.

To remove a file from the bookmark list:

Select Window from the menu bar, and then select Bookmarks. The Bookmarks window is displayed.
Single-click on the entry you want to delete and press the Delete key on your keyboard. Or, from the Edit menu, select Delete Bookmark.

To edit an entry in the bookmark list:

Select Window from the menu bar, open the Bookmarks window, and then single-click on the entry you want to edit.
Select Item from the menu bar, and then select Edit Bookmark..... A dialog box is displayed.
Modify the title or URL of the bookmark as needed.
Click OK.

Using the History Window

You can use the history window to open files you have looked at during the past 60 days.

Select Go from the menu bar.
Select the file you want to reopen.

Browsing the Web

If you have access to the World Wide Web, you can use the provided browser to access the vast array of information available on Cisco Connection Online (CCO), including the most current version of Cisco's technical documentation.

Perform the following steps to access Cisco documentation from CCO:

Launch the Documentation CD-ROM browser.
In the URL window at the top of the screen, type one of the following URLs to access CCO:

http://www.cisco.com

http://www-europe.cisco.com

http://www-china.cisco.com
From the CCO home page, click on Products & Ordering.
Scroll down to Documentation and click on Cisco Documentation. The documentation home page is displayed.

Note The search capabilities discussed in this booklet only work when you are viewing data locally. If you are not viewing data locally, the search function will not highlight specific words, but will locate the document that they are contained in.