Help (Menu/Action Choice)

Provide a Help menu-bar item in the menu bar of all windows that have a menu bar and provide help information.

In conjunction with the Menu Guidelines reference page, use Table 1-7 “Help Menu Choices” to decide which choices to include in the Help menu and how to organize them.

Do not display the shortcut key for On Item (for example, Shift F1 or Shift Help) in the menu entry if it would significantly increase the width of the Help menu.

When the user chooses On Item, initiate context-sensitive help mode by changing the shape of the pointer to the question mark pointer. When the user moves the pointer to the element for which help is needed and clicks the SELECT button, exit from the mode and present any context-sensitive help available for the element. When the user presses Cancel or Escape, exit from the mode without presenting help.