Al -

Sorry, but the way you find them is "RTFM."

There's a lot of stuff in the Help files, although frankly they are not as good as they should be. Most of the info is there, but some of it is disguised under layers of assumptions. My system indicates 185 separate Help files, most of which are Windows and/or standard Office product help sources. Of course you may have to decide which one to look in to find quick answers.

There's a lot of good stuff at the Microsoft website, in a half dozen support sites/pages but especially in what Mickeysoft calls the "Knowledge Base" (and there are several distinct on-site search engines for different kinds of users). The WinXP Help utility will take you directly to "web help" if you need it.

Web searches sometimes will turn up a lot, although you have to be careful about people who will tell you things they don't know, and who know more than they really know.

Reading a magazine or two doesn't hurt.

When you have a problem -
asking a specific question
about a specific problem
giving as much applicable detail as possible,
omitting as much ranting and raving as you can manage (at least until after you've described the problem),
and including the kind of machine, Operating System, and sometimes the browser you're using
- will often produce useful help from others.

I have never seen the statement in a request for help on the 'cat: "I looked for "xxx" in Help and didn't find ..."

John