Help menu and documentation

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Analytica User GuideIntroduction: About AnalyticaHelp menu and documentation


Select Help from the menu bar to open the Help menu.

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Most users see the left-hand version of the menu starting with User guide. The right-hand version appears if you have Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional installed, which enable direct links into sections of a PDF document.

Content outline F1: Opens the User Guide showing chapters, sections, and subsections as an expandable outline, using bookmarks. Press the function key F1 as a shortcut.

Function list: Opens a page listing all functions, operators, and other constructs, classified by type. Click a name to jump to an explanation of how to use it. This is a fast way to find a function if you don’t know its name.

Index: Opens the User Guide to its alphabetized index. Select the first letter of the term from the bookmark outline, and click an entry to jump to its explanation.

Find: Opens the Find dialog in Adobe Acrobat so you can search for a term.

User Guide F1: Opens this Analytica User Guide as a PDF document in Adobe Reader. Press the function key F1 as a shortcut (see Online help and electronic documentation below).

Optimizer: Opens the Analytica Optimizer Guide (if you have Analytica Optimizer).

Tutorial: Opens the Analytica Tutorial as a PDF document in Adobe Reader.

Analytica Wiki: Opens the Analytica Wiki home page in your default web browser.

Wiki login info: Dialog allows you to enter your Analytica Wiki login credentials so that when you click on a link for more information that jumps into the Analytica Wiki, Analytica is able to log you in automatically.

Web tech support: Opens Lumina’s Analytica tech support web page in your default web browser, with support information and links to frequently asked questions.

Email tech support: Starts an email message to send to Lumina tech support using your default email application.

Contact Lumina: Opens a dialog with Lumina contact information: web links, phone numbers, email, and physical mailing address.

Update license: Opens the Licensing Information dialog so you can select a different license or edition or activation a new activation key to upgrade your license of Analytica.

About Analytica: Opens the startup splash screen, mentioning the Analytica edition, release number, and the name of the person to whom it is licensed.

Online help and electronic documentation

You can open the Tutorial, User Guide, and Optimizer Guide (when available) from the Help menu, or press the F1 key to open the User Guide.

You can read and search these PDF documents using the Adobe® Reader available free from http://www.adobe.com. Some additional features are available if you purchase Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional.

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The expandable outline: Click a section title to view that section. Click Ch0 5.png or Ch0 6.png icons to expand and collapse the bookmark tree for chapters and sections of the outline.

Function list: If you can’t remember the name of a function, go to the Glossary or Function List, after the appendixes. This chapter lists functions and system variables by functional groups. From here, click a function name to jump to its full description.

Alphabetical index: If the search box finds too many occurrences of a term, try the Alphabetical Function List or Index in the bookmarks. It usually links to the best explanation for each term.

The Analytica Wiki

The Analytica Wiki is the repository of resources for active Analytica users. The Wiki is located at http://wiki.Lumina.com

There is no need to commit this URL to memory -- there is a link on the Help menu. The Wiki contains extended reference materials in greater detail than available here in the user guide, additional example models and libraries, Excel to Analytica equivalents, dozens of hours of recorded webinars, lists of published research publications that used Analytica, FAQs, in-depth articles on Analytica and modeling concepts, categorized function indexes, and much more. In addition, whenever you encounter an error while using Analytica, a hyperlink on the error dialog takes you to the Wiki where additional details and examples about that particular error message are described.

See Also


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