OpenROAD includes a Help button on the menu bar of each window to access information about OpenROAD procedures and reference material, such as description of various editors, 4GL syntax, system classes and their methods, and events.

The information is displayed in the standard Windows Help format, with hypertext links between topics.

You can also create your own help text files and link the files to your OpenROAD application. The steps in the following sections provide an overview of the procedures for creating and linking Help files.