The Affinity Publisher Didn't have the Search Box in Help Menu For Windows OS.

[HANDJOJO]

Dear All,

How to appear the Search Box in Help menu in Affinity Publisher, as I didn't see this for Windows OS, however for Mac OS they have it as per screen show attached.

Awaiting the information.

Thanks & B/regards,

[GarryP]

As far as I know, this is an OS-specific feature which is not available on Windows so there’s nothing we, as users, can do about it.

Pressing F1 and then typing your search words into the search text field isn’t too bad but it might be better if the search text field could be open every time the Help window was brought into focus. (At the moment, on Windows 10, if the Help window is already open, but without focus, pressing F1 brings the window into focus but the search text field isn’t automatically open and has to be clicked on before a search can begin.)

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, GarryP said:

Pressing F1 and then typing your search words into the search text field isn’t too bad

But, as was pointed out to me awhile back, that's not what the Search box on Mac provides. It's not a search of the Help (or, not merely a search of the Help), but a search that allows you to find elements of the UI, directly.

[GarryP]

Interesting. I used a Mac for years without knowing that (or ever using it): https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-the-macos-help-menu/
Sounds like that Mac functionality could be difficult to add to the Windows versions, unless Windows has similar functionality for WPF applications.

[Murfee]

24 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But, as was pointed out to me awhile back, that's not what the Search box on Mac provides. It's not a search of the Help (or, not merely a search of the Help), but a search that allows you to find elements of the UI, directly.

It does Walt, help topics are listed below...its a very useful function 😀

 

[walt.farrell]

16 minutes ago, Murfee said:

It does Walt, help topics are listed below...its a very useful function

Yes, but you can get that from the Search that is built into the Help, on either Mac or Windows. What you can't get, on Windows, is the extra searching of the UI that MacOS provides.

[R C-R]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

What you can't get, on Windows, is the extra searching of the UI that MacOS provides.

Plus the animated floating tab marker pointing to menu items that match the search term, automatically opening the menu or submenu that contains them as you move the pointer down the list.

It is a useful feature, if perhaps a bit gimmicky.