About This Guide

Conventions

This guide follows several procedural and typographical conventions to better provide clear and understandable instructions and descriptions. These conventions are described in the following sections.

This book uses the following conventions for structuring information:

•Cross References

•Typeface

•Procedures

•Messages

Cross References

When a topic is covered in depth elsewhere in this guide, or in another guide in this series, a cross reference to the additional information is provided. Cross references help you find related topics and information quickly.

Internal Cross References

This guide is designed to be used as an electronic document. It contains cross references to other sections of the document that act as hyperlinks when you view the document online. The following text is a hyperlink: Procedures.

External Cross References

Cross references to other publications are not hyperlinked. These cross references will take the form: see <chapter name > in the Publication Name.

Typeface

This guide uses the following typeface conventions:

Bold

used for the names of screen elements like buttons, drop-down lists, or fields. For

 

example, when you are done with a dialog, you would click the OK button. See

 

Procedures below for an example.

Code

used for text a user must type to use the product

Italic

used for guide titles, variables, and important terms

Hyperlink

used for cross references in a document or links to web site

Procedures

This guide contains several step-by-step procedures that tell you how to perform a specific task. These procedures always begin with a phrase that describes the task goal, followed by numbered steps that describe what you must do to complete the task.

The beginning of every chapter has cross references to the procedures that it contains. These cross references, like all cross references in this guide, are hyperlinked.

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