Strater® Help

There are several ways to obtain help in Strater:

Getting Help from the Help Menu

Within Strater, the online help file is opened through Home | Help | Contents or Home | Help | Tutorial. Alternatively, press F1 at anytime to open the help. You can navigate help using the Contents, Index, Search, and Favorites pages in the navigation pane to the left of the topic page.

The Contents page allows you to search the predefined table of contents. The table of contents has a variety of help books and help topic pages. Double-click on a help book, or click the button to the left of a book to open it.
The Index page allows you to search index words to find a help topic. If you do not find a topic with an index word, try a search on the Search page.
The Search page offers advanced search options including phrases, wildcards, boolean, and nested searching.
The Favorites page allows you add help pages to a custom list. This allows you to quickly find favorite help topics that you reference frequently.

Navigating the Help

The navigation pane shows the Contents, Index, Search, and Favorites pages. The navigation page is displayed by default. The navigation pane can be displayed with the button and hidden with the button.

Internet Help Resources

There are several Internet help resources.

Click the or buttons in online help to research a question or to post a question.
Use the Help | Feedback commands to send a problem report, suggestion, or information request by email.
Search our web page at www.goldensoftware.com or use the Help | Golden Software on the Web commands for links to the Golden Software Home Page, Strater Product Page, and Frequently Asked Questions.
The Golden Software website has a variety of resources including training videos, a support forum, a newsletter, a user image gallery, a blog, and a variety of free downloads.

Obtaining Information on Dialogs and Commands

To obtain information about dialogs or highlighted commands:

Press F1 at anytime to open help.
Click in dialogs to open the help topic pertaining to that dialog.
Find out the function of highlighted menu commands or open dialogs by pressing F1.
Click , or press SHIFT+F1 on your keyboard, then click a menu command, toolbar button, or screen region to view information regarding that item.

Strater Overview

For general information on Strater, select Introduction to Strater, Borehole View, Creating a Borehole, and Log Items.