Help on TOPIC Assists

DESCRIPTION:
The TOPIC Assists help you define your queries and topic trees so that you can 
locate the words and topics which best meet your retrieval needs.  

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To close this window, follow the same procedure used to close a window in your 
graphical user interface.
 
TOPIC ASSIST TYPES:
The TOPIC Assists available to you during your TOPIC session are as follows:  

Topics Assist:  Displays a list of all available topics, and locates topics in the list

Find Topics Assist:  Locates one or more specific topics from the list of 
available topics

Words Assist:  Locates a specific word from a list of words which exist in your documents

Stems Assist: Locates a word and its ending variations from a list of words 
which exist in your documents	

Thesaurus Assist:  Locates synonyms of a specified word from a list of 
synonyms defined by the Random House Thesaurus

Suggest Assist:  Locates statistically-related words for a specified word.  TOPIC calculates statistically-related words based on word occurrences in your document database.  This facility is available only when it has been set up by your TOPIC database administrator. 

Wildcard Assist:  Locates words which match a specified character string

Choice Assist:  Locates field values for a specified field name that exists in your document database.  This facility is available only when it has been set up by your TOPIC database administrator.

TO USE THE ASSISTS:
Select the desired assist type within the Assists window. Enter the characters 
which represent the topic, word, stem, synonym, or character string you wish 
to locate in the Search Area edit box appearing under the assist type label.  The list displayed in the Assists 
window scrolls to show the closest match to the characters you entered in the 
Search Area edit box.  These matches can then be copied into your query window
by first selecting them, and then using the "Add to Query" option in the Edit menu.