What's This? tool in RH 8

[City_Sue]

I am researching new ways of presenting context sensitive help, instead of opening a topic from the full help. Cannot find info about What's this?

I want to know what the output looks like. Is it in a 'bubble', does it appear when you hover over a field in the product, or must you click a link?

Has anyone had success using this tool?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

I think I remember seeing threads that dismissed this method as not very useable anymore. Do a search for "what's this?" & check out what threads you get.

[City_Sue]

I thought i heard that too.

I used that exact phrase, plus others, in a search - to no avail. That's why I hoped that someone on the forum may be able to shed some light.

[Captiv8r]

Hi Sue

If you want to see "What's this" help in actual use, hopefully you have Windows XP. I don't think I've seen any What's this since migrating to Windows 7. Not sure about Vista. Anyhoo, if you have XP, just open Microsoft Paint. (Click Start > Run > Type MSPAINT into the Run dialog and press Enter).

From paint, click File > Save As and you should see a dialog similar to below. See the Question Mark in the upper right coner? Click it and the cursor changes.

Click the item you want information on and if it's available, a description will be presented.

Hopefully this helps with providing what you were looking for.

Cheers... Rick

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