How to search help in Visual Studio 2008 shell

[dboggs]

As an old user of CVF, I found it very easy when searching for a keyword etc. to limit the domain to Fortran. But when I got a current IVF I now use it with VS 2008 shell (at least I think that's what it is), and I can't see how to limit this domain. At best, the search options allow me to limit it to "Intel". Still, when I search for a word or phrase I get 100's of matches taken from various languages, Windows API, etc. I only want hits relevent to Fortran!

Even if in VS I select Help > Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011 > to bring up "Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE2011 Help", the searchs go everywhere.

This is so annoying, I have reverted to keeping CVF installed just so I can search help (which needless to say can be dangerous).

How to do this?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Your're right - this is harder than it ought to be. Here is what works for me.

Bring up the help. Select Tools > Options > Help > Online. For "When loading Help content" select "Try local only, not online". For "Search these providers", check only "Local help".

See how that works for you.

[dboggs]

It works! Thanks Steve, your advice is quick and to the point as always.