Solid Edge user assistance makes command information available as you perform tasks. You can access command, conceptual, reference, and instructional information any time during a design session.
The Solid Edge start-up screen provides user assistance, such as tutorials and a link to Solid Edge support. It also provides basic operations, such as creating and opening files.
Tooltips help you identify a user interface element, including command icons, option buttons, and other gadgets. When you point the cursor at a user interface element, a label displays the name of the command and a brief description of what it is. Where appropriate, the accelerator key combination that you can use to invoke the command is displayed. There may also be an informational graphic as well as a pointer to additional online Help. You can turn tooltips off and on using the Show Tool Tips option on the Helpers page of the Options dialog box.
The command tips provide contextual assistance as you work with Solid Edge. You can enable them by setting the Show Command Tips option on the Helpers page of the Options dialog box.
To find commands quickly, use the Command Finder located on the status bar. You can search for the command by command name or by capability.
You can open the Help pane 
to access these learning tools:
A comprehensive library of tutorials is available in every Solid Edge release. You can find them on the startup screen, as well as by clicking the Solid Edge Tutorials link in the Help window.
Self-paced training courses and instructor-led training are available for Solid Edge. You can find them when you click the Solid Edge Self-Paced Training link in the Help window.
You can use the About Solid Edge link on the Help window to see the software version and license information.
Solid Edge provides links to online Help, tutorials, and online training from the Help window displayed when you click the Help Index icon . The Help Index button is located at top-right on the command ribbon.
You also can press F1 whenever you need online Help during a design session. When a command is active or if you have selected something in the graphic window, the Help topic for that command appears. If no command is active, then the table of contents for the Help topics appears.
There are different books of online Help available.
Explore the What's New information available in online Help. This also contains links to Try It! exercises that you can use to quickly become familiar with the most important new features in Solid Edge.
If you are used to working with AutoCAD, you can benefit from the special Help topics for AutoCAD users.
For topics on customizing Solid Edge, use the Programming with Solid Edge command on the Help window.
Each Help book provides a structured table of contents, an index, and full-text search capabilities provide easy access to Help topics.
If you open Help by pressing F1, the appropriate Help book is opened automatically.
One of the most widely used features of online Help is the search function. Follow these tips to get the most out of searching Help.
To narrow your search results—Group elements of your search using double quotes or parentheses.
Example:
To get information about the Zoom slider but not the other zoom functions, type “zoom slider” in the search box, and then click the List Topics button.
To widen your search results or when you are not sure what something is called—Use wildcard expressions to search for words or phrases. Wildcard expressions allow you to search for one or more characters using a question mark or asterisk.
Example:
The search string dimension* displays topics that contain the term "dimension," "dimensional," and so on.
Further specify your search criteria—There are several things you can do to tailor the search to get more specific results.
Narrow your previous results by searching within the subset of topics using the Search Previous Results option.
To search for topics that include all forms of a word, use the Match Similar Words option.
Example:
For example, a search on the word "add" will find "add," "adds," and "added".
To find topics where the keyword is of primary focus, set the Search Titles Only option before you search.
Sort results alphabetically—After you have searched, click the Title column header to sort the generated topic list alphabetically.
Searches are not case-sensitive.
Punctuation marks such as the period, colon, semicolon, comma, and hyphen are ignored during a search.
You cannot search for quotation marks.