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Current help file name. The left-most button indicates the name of the current help file. The name reflects your latest Service Pack installation, since this updates the main portion of the help. Other updates are only indicated in the release notes.

Customize help. Clicking on the button will return you to the Customize MIL Help section earlier in this chapter. In this section, you can choose settings such as boards and operating system. When you click on the Save Settings button, these settings will become the default global settings of the current help file.

MIL systems. The MIL systems button allows you to filter the help information so that it is specific to allocated MIL systems. This button is only available in the MIL Reference. In addition, a tool tip appears to remind you which column you are looking at, whenever you hover your mouse over a MIL system-specific column. The MIL system-specific columns appear on the right-hand side of a row, and indicate whether or not the information in the row applies to a particular system. A blank MIL system-specific column indicates that the system is unaffected by the information in that row. If an entire table contains no MIL system-specific columns, then all the information in the table applies to all the systems.

Value tables. The Value tables button allows you to globally change the display of tables in the MIL Reference so that they initially appear collapsed. By default, all the tables are fully expanded.

You can then collapse or expand the individual tables or rows of tables locally. There are two ways to do so. You can click on the down arrow or right arrow button within each table, on the left side of each row, or you can click on the Detailed or Summarized link in each row.

Clicking on the down arrow or right arrow button (or the Summarize or More details link) will collapse or expand that particular row, respectively.

If you click on the down arrow or right arrow button in the table header, that selection will cascade through the whole table. These local changes are only temporary. If you leave the page and come back, the alterations made to the tables are not remembered and the global settings are applied.

If you open (or collapse) tables and then change your MIL systems settings, all the tables in your document will revert to their global settings.

Save settings. Clicking on the button will return you to the Customize MIL Help section earlier in this chapter. In this section, you can choose settings such as your MIL systems and operating system. When you click on the Save Settings button, these settings will become the default global settings of the current help file.