I've now found the 'Create New Name' icon. It wasn't apparent from the first help page that this even was an icon.
It just says: "In the Selector Tool click Create new name". There is no consistency in the help file.
Why not say
"In the Selector Tool click the "Create new name" icon" (with a picture of the icon).? I'll tell you why, because the person who wrote the help file knew the program inside and out, and didn't think "How would a complete newcomer have the first idea that "Create new name" wasn't a menu option, unless we specifically tell them?"
No doubt none of this will be changed or improved...
The help file needs redoing, the fonts are too small, you don't have the simple option to make them bigger, and it simply needs more pictures. We are, after all, dealing with a computer screen. Not a manual on pure mathematics.
Rule number one of help file design: never presume the user knows anything just because it's obvious to you, the programmer, designer, person who's used the program for two months non-stop...
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