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This sub-menu contains options for locating topics in your project and links to and from selected topics.

The Find Topic dialog:

DLG_FindTopic

Typing text in the Select Topic: field automatically takes you to the first topic in the list matching the text you type. (This does not work for help context numbers.)

The topic IDs and help context numbers of modular child projects in your TOC are not shown in the list.

Find Referrers:

This option displays a list of all links to and from one or more selected topics. It is normally displayed in the main program window but you can undock it by double-clicking on its title bar. To redock just double-click again.

The Find Referrers report includes both normal links and links in graphics hotspots. However, please note that the report does not include any references to topics that may be contained in scripts, macros or plain HTML code that you have entered yourself.

DLG_FindReferrers

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Topic:

The link address of the current topic.

Tip: All the links are active! You can navigate to all the topics and back to the current topic by clicking on the links in the dialog.

Is referred by:

All the topics in the current project that refer to the selected topic. Links to the topic from other projects are not included, even if the projects are included in the TOC of the current project as child modules.

Links to:

All the topics in the current project linked to by the current topic. Links to topics in other projects are not listed, even if the projects are included in the TOC of the current project as child modules.

This list also includes references to any topics in which the current topic is used as a snippet.

You can click on the topic ID links in the list to visit the topics and edit them without closing the Find Referrers report.

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BTN_ReferrersHome

Returns you to the original topic after visiting other topics in the reports list. Inactive for reports including results for more than one topic.

btn_searchrefs

Simple search function for finding text in the report window.

btn_copyrefs

Copies text from the report window to the clipboard. (This does not select all the text in the report - you must select text with the mouse first.)

btn_printrefs

Prints the report.

BTN_ReferrersSave

Saves the report to a file. The file is saved in HTML format.

See also:

Searching for text, topics and referrers

Find Topic

Find & Replace Text