Getting Help

As you would expect from a modern Windows application, Snow Inventory provides you with plenty of help on every aspect of working with the program. In addition to this very comprehensive help file, the program also has extensive context-sensitive help that you can access in every situation.

Using this help file:

This help is designed to be used on-screen. It is extensively cross-linked so that you can find more relevant information to any subject from any location. If you prefer reading printed manuals a PDF version of the entire help is available from the Snow Software website. (This is not available for the beta release.) This may be useful as a reference but you will probably find that the active hyperlinks, cross-references and active index make the on-screen electronic version of the help much more useful.

Getting started

Start by studying the Introduction, The User Interface and Quick Start Tutorials sections.

Using the help while you're working

As far as possible the help separates instructions and background information. This makes it much easier to refer to the "how-to" instructions when you are in a hurry and need to get your work done.

•	To learn how to do something consult the two working procedures sections, Basic Working Procedures and More Advanced Procedures.

•	To learn about something consult the Reference section.

•	You can always use the Index and Search function or check the Frequently Asked Question if there is some issue you don’t know where to find.

All sections have extensive links to the other relevant sections so it doesn't really matter where you start.

Context-sensitive help:

►	Virtually every element and control in Snow Inventory has a popup context-sensitive help topic that describes what it is for. Just right-click on the control and select What's This? from the popup menu.

►	All dialogs have a button that displays the relevant section of the online help.
►	Or simply, press F1 to display online help for the current window or dialog box.

Tutorials:

•	See Quick Start Tutorials in the help for some basic tutorials to get you started with using Snow Inventory 3.

•	We also publish tips and tricks, FAQs, and other articles at our web site. To learn more, please visit: http://www.snowsoftware.com

Getting a printed user manual:

Please don't try to print the HTML Help version of the help from the Microsoft help viewer, it would look terrible. You can download a formatted PDF version of the entire documentation designed for printing from our download page at:

http://www.snowsoftware.com/support/download

As mentioned above, however, you will probably find that the on-screen version of the help is much more useful because of the hyperlinks and cross-references.