I wrote an (unintelligible) blog post about an idea for handling this -
having a single button that places a translucent overlay covering the
interface, which has helpful text directly on top of each element.  Clicking
anywhere on the UI would then re-hide the translucent overlay.  It didn't
get any response, but I still think it's an interesting idea.

http://www.acleandesign.com/2008/07/new-help-paradigm-overlays/

Loren

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On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Susie Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> An old standard that I seem to recall is to have dotted underline
> under some of the words. I don't know if anyone still uses this but
> it might work. I have used a small box with a question mark in it
> near each item but my pages were not very dense so it worked.
>
> Just a thought.
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