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Press ⌘ + ? and Tranzio explains itself. Anything with documentation behind it lights up, and clicking it opens the explanation without leaving the page you are on.
Help mode
Press ⌘ + ? and Tranzio explains itself. Anything with documentation behind it lights up, and clicking it opens the explanation without leaving the page you are on.
This Help Center answers questions you know how to ask. Help mode answers the other kind: you are looking straight at a button and you have no idea what it does. Instead of leaving the page, guessing which topic covers it, and scanning for the right paragraph, you point at the thing and it explains itself.
Turning it on
Three ways in, and they do exactly the same thing.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+? | Turn help mode on or off |
The ? button in the top bar, beside the bell, is the one to reach for when you are already lost: it stays lit while the mode is on, so the same button turns it off again. The menu at the bottom of the sidebar, the one with your name on it, also has Help mode in it. Press Esc to leave, or use the shortcut again.
The shortcut is the ? key, which is Shift and the / key on most keyboards, held together with the same modifier every other Tranzio shortcut uses. It works the same whatever keyboard layout you type in.
What you see
While help mode is on, a bar appears across the top of the window and anything with documentation behind it picks up a green dashed outline and a small ? marker in its corner. Point at one and a label tells you what it is and which part of this Help Center it will open, so you know what you are getting before you click.
| Where | What it does |
|---|---|
| Green dashed outline | This has an explanation. Click it to read. |
| No outline | Nothing written about this one yet. Clicking does nothing while help mode is on. |
| The label on hover | The name of the thing, and the topic and section that explain it. |
Nothing you click while help mode is on will actually run. That is deliberate: you can point at Uninstall and read about it without uninstalling anything. Leave help mode before you try to use the app again.
Reading the answer
Clicking an outlined thing opens the part of this Help Center that covers it, without sending you away from what you were doing. The section you asked about is highlighted, and the text around it stays visible, which is usually where the follow-up answer lives.
Down the left is every other section of that topic, so a second question is one click. When you want the whole thing, with the table of contents and the next and previous links, Open full topic takes you to the real page. Closing the window leaves you in help mode, ready to ask about the next thing.
What is covered so far
Every screen you can reach from the sidebar is annotated, along with the app frame around them. Coverage is deliberately uneven inside a screen: the parts worth asking about carry an outline, while every small button does not, because an outline on everything would tell you nothing about where to look.
Help mode only ever outlines what is actually in front of you. The Studio and the audio editor take over the whole window, so while you are inside one you get its own parts and nothing else: the sidebar and the profile menu are not on screen there, so there is nothing to ask about. Close the editor and the frame comes back, outlines and all.
A few things stay unmarked on purpose. Where nothing in this Help Center genuinely answers a question about a control, that control is left alone rather than pointed at a section that talks about something else, since a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. If you find one of those, the topics here are still the place to look, and telling us through Support is how the gap gets closed. The Keyboard shortcuts page lists the chord alongside everything else.