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The Help menu contains items to explain and define LabVIEW features and other components, provide full LabVIEW documentation, and access National Instruments Technical Support.

Note  Some menu items are available only on specific operating systems, with specific LabVIEW development systems, when an item in the Project Explorer window is selected, or when a VI is selected.

• Show Context Help displays or hides the Context Help window.
• Lock Context Help locks or unlocks the current contents of the Context Help window.
• Search the LabVIEW Help displays the LabVIEW Help. Use this help file as a reference for information about LabVIEW palettes, menus, tools, VIs, and functions. The LabVIEW Help also includes step-by-step instructions for using LabVIEW features.
• Explain Error accesses the complete reference information for any current errors in the VI.
• Help for This VI directly accesses the complete VI reference information from the LabVIEW Help for the current VI.
• Find Examples searches hundreds of example VIs. You can modify an example to fit your application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into your own VI.
• Find Instrument Drivers displays the Instrument Driver Finder, which you can use to search for and install LabVIEW Plug and Play instrument drivers. This option is not available on Mac OS.
• Web Resources accesses Internet links that take you directly to National Instruments Technical Support, the LabVIEW KnowledgeBase, NI Developer Zone, and other online National Instruments resources.
• (Windows) Activate LabVIEW displays the Activation Wizard, which you can use to activate a valid LabVIEW license. This option is available only if you are running LabVIEW in evaluation mode.
• (Windows) Activate Application Builder displays the Activation Wizard, which you can use to activate the Application Builder if you have an activated version of the LabVIEW Full or Base development system. The Application Builder license does not take effect until you restart LabVIEW.
• Patents accesses patent information about your current installation of LabVIEW, including toolkits and modules. Refer to the National Instruments Web site for the most current list of patents covering this product.
• About LabVIEW accesses general information about your current installation of LabVIEW, including version number and serial number.