The Maya Help is accessible from the Help menu of Maya. There are two versions of the Maya Help: the Online default version, accessed via the internet, and an Offline version that you can download and install locally. Both versions appear in your Web browser and give you complete access to the Maya documentation.
The online Help is published as part of the Autodesk Knowledge Network, the place to go for Autodesk Support, Learning, and Community resources. Sign in using your Autodesk account and participate. (For more information on creating an account, see Creating an Autodesk Account.)
The online version of the Help has multiple features that let you participate Autodesk's Online community. You can leave comments, share pages on social media, and participate in discussions with other users.
Searching the online help provides you not only with access to the full Maya documentation, but also incorporates data matches from other web sites, like the Autodesk forums and YouTube channels, in your search. Your results are ranked according to the number of occurrences of the keyword(s) and are listed from the highest rank to the lowest. Each match contains contextual details, including an excerpt of text, the name of its source, and the date it was last updated, so you can quickly navigate your results.
You can download a version of the Maya Help to install locally. See Get help for instructions.
If you search using the locally-installed Help, you do not get results from online sources. In this case, you can use the tabbed access to Contents, Index, Search, and Favorites to browse the Help documentation that is installed on your system.