Providing a Help Menu

The Style Guide and Certification Checklist recommends that each menu bar include a Help menu. The Help menu may contain a variety of commands that lets the user access different types of online help for your application.

The most important commands include:

Additional commands may display help on special keyboard usage, application tasks, reference, or tutorials. You should design your Help menu to best suit your application, while staying within the guidelines and recommendations of the Style Guide and Certification Checklist.

See Also

• “To Create a Part” describes how authors create the home topic for a help volume.

• “To Create a Meta Information Section” describes how authors create a copyright topic.

• Chapter 11 “Providing Help on Help”describes how help on help is found and how to add it to your application.