Abstract: The invention discloses an method, apparatus and article of manufacture for identifying and distinguishing words contained within an electronic message, including the steps of scanning and comparing message terms in an electronic message to significant terms from an online registry to identify any matched significant message terms and making distinct the matched significant message term to indicate significance to a reader.

Abstract: A method and system in accordance with the present invention allows the help information to be shared independent of its invocation method, so that the information can be displayed in both integrated user assistance mechanisms and traditional online help windows. The method includes receiving an invocation of one of a plurality of user assistance mechanisms; and collecting help information from an information source, the information source comprising a structure indicating what portion of the information source is to be displayed based upon the invoked user assistance mechanism. With a method and system in accordance with the present invention, help authors place a metastructure or secondary structure in the information source. This secondary structure indicates which parts of the information source should be displayed by that particular integrated user assistance mechanism.