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title: "Tip for Usability in Context-Sensitive Help"
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# Tip for Usability in Context-Sensitive Help

[Theresa Putkey explains](http://www.stc.org/Intercom/PDFs/2009/200906_13-15.pdf) how to make context-sensitive help more usable. Don't just present a single task to the user that relates to the page the user is on, but rather present a variety of topics spanning the how, when, why, and other related issues for the page.