Accessing the Help

There are multiple ways to access the 89600 VSA help, as listed in the following sections.

Dynamic help

When the VSA is running, you can open Dynamic Help by clicking Help > Dynamic Help. By default, dynamic help is shown in a tool window that is docked to the right-hand side of the VSA main window.

The dynamic help will navigate to the topic for the user interface item that currently has focus. This is an excellent way to explore the functionality of the 89600 VSA.

From the Start Menu

After installing the 89600 VSA software, you can click the Windows Start button, then select Keysight 89600 Software <ReleaseVersion> > VSA Help to open the 89600 VSA help system.

Help menu

While the VSA software is running, click Help > Show Help from the main menu. For a listing of other available Help menu selections, see the Help menu topic.

Help button on dialogs

You can access help for any dialog box by clicking the ? button in title bar of the dialog box.

In the following illustration, clicking the Help button opens the VSA help for the Format tab of the Digital Demod Properties dialog box.

Pressing F1 on the keyboard

You can access context-sensitive help by pressing the F1 key.

When you are viewing a dialog box, as shown in the example above, pressing F1 shows the same information as clicking the ? button. The F1 help also works on menus (as shown below) and traces.

Pressing F1 while a menu item is highlighted opens context-sensitive help for that menu item.

In this example, pressing F1 will open help for the Y Scale tab in the Trace dialog box.