National Instruments 373873C-01 About This Manual

About This Manual

Use this manual to familiarize yourself with LabVIEW SignalExpress

interactive measurements and the basic LabVIEW SignalExpress features

that you use to acquire and analyze signals.

This manual contains exercises that help you begin working with

LabVIEW SignalExpress. These exercises teach you how to run projects,

configure steps, work with signals, configure sweep measurements, log

data, and extend LabVIEW SignalExpress with LabVIEW graphical

programming.

The following conventions appear in this manual:

»The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options

to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you to

pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item, and select Options

from the last dialog box.

This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.

bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click in the software, such

as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes input and

output names, parameter names, dialog boxes, sections of dialog boxes, and

menu names.

italic Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross-reference, or an introduction

to a key concept. Italic text also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word

or value that you must supply.

monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the

keyboard. This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths,

directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions,

operations, variables, filenames, and extensions.