# Help preferences

On the Help preferences page, you can indicate how to display help information.

Option | Description | Default
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Open Help Search | Configures whether Help/Search (and Help/Index if configured) opens the help view or help contents. | In the dynamic help view
Open help view documents | This option allows you to determine whether the documents selected in the help view will be opened in-place, in the editor area or in a browser. | in-place
Open Help Contents | Allows you to open help contents in an external web browser or in the Eclipse help browser. Use "Web Browser" preference page to select browser to use. | Off
Open window context help | This option allows you to determine whether the window context help will be opened in a dynamic help view or in an infopop. | in a dynamic help view
Open dialog context help | This option allows you to determine whether the dialog context help will be opened in a dynamic help section of help view or in an infopop. | in dialog tray

Here is what the Help preferences page looks like:

Help
Help view

Accessing help
Help display settings

Help Content preferences
Web Browser preferences