You will soon find that your instrument is more or less self-explanatory with an intuitive user interface. A menu tree with few levels makes the timer/counter easy to operate. The large backlit graphic LCD is the center of information and can show you several signal parameters at the same time as well as setting status and operator messages.
Statistics based on measurement samples can easily be presented as histograms or trend plots in addition to standard numerical measurement results like max, min, mean and standard deviation.
The AUTO function triggers automatically on any input waveform. A bus-learn mode simplifies GPIB programming. With bus-learn mode, manual counter settings can be transferred to the controller for later reprogramming. There is no need to learn code and syntax for each individual counter setting if you are an occasional GPIB bus user.