Show help on a tool or menu item

Use Help > What’s This? to show the specific help for a tool or menu item you click.

Display information about a specific function

  1. Click Help > What’s This?.
  2. Click a function in the menu or tool palette.
Tip:

To get help in an option box, click with the anywhere in the option box but the menu bar. This opens a submenu that contains the word Help, and possibly other items. Scroll to Help and release the .

To get help for the Control Panel, Palette, Shelves, and control windows, click the menu icon on the title bar and select Help.