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If I can't find a menu item but I'm pretty sure it exists/should exist I type in versions of it into that help text area (on OSX) to find it. It works probably 60% of the time, the other 40% being that it didn't exist in the first place, or I was completely wrong about what it should be called.

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For people who don’t use OS X, every application has a search box in the Help menu (as seen in the 5th image in the original article). If you type in it the computer will search through all of the available commands in the menus and submenus, then open the menu parents of the most likely result and place a big floating marker next to it.

It also highlights the item found, so you can just press [Return] to activate it.

It's basically spotlight/windows search for menu items.

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