The Early Church Fathers Series in WinHelp Format

A 37-volume electronic collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church.

Programmed in WinHelp by: Maged Nabih Kamel, MD

Email: mkamel@geocities.com

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7084

© 1996 Dr. Maged N Kamel. All rights reserved.

This special edition is freeware and is PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. Sroll down for Upgrade Info. The plain text of the writings of Early Church Fathers is in the public domain.

To search for words and phrases in this WinHelp volume:

(Windows® 95/NT 3.51 or later ONLY!)

  1. Click the Search button on the toolbar above, then click the Find tab. If this is the first time you have clicked the Find tab, follow the instructions on your screen to compile a word list.

  2. In the first text box, type the word(s) you want to find. Matching words appear in the list below it.

  3. In the list of matching words, click the word(s) you want to look for.

  4. In the bottom list box, double-click a title to display the topic.

Note that the text of each topic found contains the word(s) you looked for, even if the word(s) are not in the topic title.

Tips

If you want to look for more than one word, separate them with spaces in the first text box.

When you look for hyphenated words, be sure to type the hyphen.

To set specific search criteria, click Options.

To search for a phrase in the file

  1. Click the Search button on the toolbar above, then click the Find tab, and then click Options.

  2. Select "The Words You Typed In Exact Order" option, and then click OK.

If this option is unavailable, recreate the word list by clicking Rebuild on the Find tab and then choosing Customize Search Capabilities. Make sure Include Phrase Searching is checked.

  1. In the text box, type the words you want to look for. Topics that contain the phrase you specify appear in the bottom list box.

  2. Double-click a title to display the topic.

Note that the text of each topic found contains the word(s) you looked for, even if the word(s) are not in the topic title.

To find similar topics

  1. Click the Search button on the toolbar above, then click the Find tab to search for words or phrases in the file as explained above.

  2. In the bottom list box, click the box next to the topic title(s) that are relevant to your search.

  3. Click Find Similar.

If this option is unavailable, recreate the word list by clicking Rebuild and then choosing Customize Search Capabilities. Make sure Support Similarity Searches is checked.

  1. Double-click a title to display the topic.

Note: You can search for similar topics only if you have marked topics as relevant.

Tip

For more information about the items on the Find tab and related dialog boxes, click ? at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item.

To search for words or phrases within the current topic

While no text is selected in the current topic window, right-click inside the topic window and choose Copy (or select Edit/Copy menu item or press Ctrl+C). This will copy current window contents to the Clipboard. Run Windows WordPad (or a similar program), paste the text into a new (blank) document and use the Search functions of WordPad to locate the text you are looking for within the current document.

Other WinHelp Features

You can print any (or all) articles in this electronic volume directly from within WinHelp. You can also change the size of the font used for text display, put bookmarks and annotations in any article for future reference, and view a list of visited topics (History Window). For more information on these features, press F1 now.

Upgrade to "Early Church Fathers Multimedia CD-ROM v1.0 for Windows® 95/NT"

Get many extras and save hard disk space!

All Windows 95' WinHelp-generated full text search files (.FTS word lists) are stored on this CD, so you do not have to build and store any of these large files on your hard disk. Plus you get a multimedia outline of early church history (30-590 A.D.) on the same CD, as well as many other goodies...

For more info, send Email to: mkamel@geocities.com

Or to: mkamel@link.com.eg

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