[U] User's Guide

48 [ U ] 4 Stata’s help and search facilitiesAdvice presents you with four alternatives:1. contents: Click on that and you will be taken to a system organized by topic: Basics, Datamanagement, Statistics, Graphics, and Programming and matrices.2. help: Click on that and you can type the name of a Stata command and go directly to itsonline help.3. search: Click on that and you can perform a keyword search.4. hsearch: Click on that and you can do a search of the contents of the help files much likesearch engines on the Internet search the contents of the web.The above are the four main features of Stata’s help system, and you can access each in various ways:1. Topical help:Select Help > Advice, click on contents, orSelect Help > Contents, orType help contents2. Help on a command or topic:Select Help > Advice, click on help, orSelect Help > Stata Command..., orType help commandname