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Why won’t that Help book open?

In Big Sur and Monterey, if you’ve not opened an app’s Help book, the first time you do it may appear empty, or simply not work. Here’s why and how to fix it.

November 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Does Big Sur need a bit more Help?

macOS Help system was last revamped in High Sierra, and has worked well. Until Big Sur has problems finding Help books, and shows some in French. How Help should work.

December 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

Make Mojave custom dictionaries work better

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How to fix custom dictionaries so that they display properly in Dark Mode. Sadly it doesn’t (yet) work for Help books too.

October 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

High Sierra’s new improved Help system diagrammed

Key improvements in naming of Help books, use of WebCore to render them, and greatly improved performance.

April 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

How High Sierra has changed Help

macOS 10.13.4 brought a major overhaul to the Help system, which greatly improves performance and usability. Here are some of its secrets.

April 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: first release version now available to fix your Help Books

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No more problems with the ‘wrong’ Help Book: this can now identify and fix those issues. First full release.

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: development version 0.2 is now available

It now sorts the popup menu, and reflexively even has its own Help Book – called, as you’d hope, HelpHelp Help.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: a tool to search Help Books and debug problems

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First development release of a free tool to examine Help Books, their problems, and search Help for specified apps.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Still looking for help

When it was written, Apple’s documentation of its Help system was incomplete and misleading. It simply doesn’t work like that.

March 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Improving HTML from Tinderbox to Make a Better Help Book

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Tuning HTML export to produce exactly the right files, and tweaking the appearance. But can it also address a search bug?

March 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

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