How do I Use the Maptitude Help? - Maptitude Learning Portal

Last Updated: March 5, 2025

In Maptitude 2019 we updated our help documentation and condensed both the User Guide PDF and searchable Help into a more easily accessible Maptitude Help. This Maptitude Help is in HTML5 format, which has several advantages:

It is more easily searchable
You can share links to help pages with colleagues
The formatting of the articles is cleaner and more appropriate for printing

To get to the Maptitude Help through the software

Go to Help>Maptitude Help

This will open the Maptitude Help in your default web browser

To Navigate to a page in the Maptitude Help

There are three ways to search for a page in the Maptitude Help.

You can use the folder structure in the Table of Contents tab to go to a specific chapter:

You can search the Index for a specific topic. The search will then display all articles that contain/discuss that topic:

You can use the Search tool to find articles that contain a specific keyword

To print a page from the Maptitude Help

Printing from the Maptitude Help is the same process as printing any web page so will be dependent on your web browser. For example, in Google Chrome, you can press Ctrl+P to print.

To share a link to the Maptitude Help

You can share a link with any other user who has Maptitude installed. Simply copy and paste the URL from your web browser and you can email the other user this link. An example link looks like this:

file:///C:/Program%20Files/Maptitude%202019/Help/Maptitude/maptitude.htm#t=Main%2FIDH_Contents.htm

To get to the Maptitude Help from a link shared with you

You can copy and paste a link to the Maptitude Help by opening a web browser of your choice and pasting the link in the URL bar. Try it with the one above.