Documentation/Dashboard/Help Style Guide
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Help "Guides" (How-to instructions)
Calc functions
A typical help text for a Calc function should follow this scheme of paragraph styles:
| Style | Function | Example |
|---|---|---|
| hidden text | Index entry | <BOOKMARKVALUE>DATE function</BOOKMARKVALUE> |
| hlp_head2, 16p, bold, capital letters | Second level heading | DATE |
| hlp_paragraph | Function description | This function converts a date written as year, month, day to an internal serial number and displays it in the cell's formatting. ... |
| hlp_head3, 14p, bold, without colon | Third level heading | Syntax |
| hlp_code, no blank before and after brackets, arguments are separated by colon and blank, arguments begin with a capital letter, arguments that consist of more than one word are contracted (ex.: DegreesFreedom) | Syntax definition | DATE(Year; Month; Day) |
| hlp_paragraph, 10p, argument is bold without colon | Explanation of function arguments | Year is an integer between 1583 and 9956 or 0 and 99. ... |
| hlp_head3, 14p, bold, without colon | Third level heading | Example |
| hlp_paragraph, starting with an equal sign, without blanks, results are not bold | Example | =DATE("00;1;1") yields 1/1/00 |
