User Guide

CHP. 1 INTRODUCTION

Online help

To access online help, choose Contents and Index from the Help menu or press .

Note:

To view online help, Internet Explorer 4.0 or later

must be installed on your system. Internet Explorer 5.0 is

included on the Vegas CD-ROM for your convenience.

The online help window has four tabs that you can use to find the information that you need.

The

Contents tab provides a list of available help topics. Double-click a closed book ( ) to open the pages

and then click a topic page ( ).

The

Index tab provides a complete listing of the help topics available. Scroll through the list of available

topics or type a word in the

Type in the keyword to find box to quickly locate topics related to that word. Select

the topic and click .

The

Search tab allows you to enter a keyword and display all of the topics in the online help that contain the

keyword you have entered. Type a keyword in the

Type in the word(s) to search for box and click . Select

the topic from the list and click .

The

Favorites tab allows you to keep topics that you revisit often in a separate folder. To add a topic to your

favorites, click on the

Favorites tab.

What’sThis? help

What’sThis? help allows you to view pop-up descriptions of Vegas menus, buttons, and dialog boxes.

Click the What’s This Help button ( ) in the toolbar or the question mark ( ) in the upper-right corner

of a dialog box. Alternately, you can choose

What's This? from the Help menu or press . The

cursor changes to a question mark icon ( ).

Click an item in the program’s interface. A pop-up description of the item appears.

Help on the Web

Additional Vegas help and information is available on the Sonic Foundry Web site. From the Help menu,

choose

Sonic Foundry on the Web to view a listing of Web pages pertaining to Vegas and Sonic Foundry.

Toolbar

Tabs

Information

pane

Shift +F1