# Help system & manuals

The **Help** main menu has the entries shown, starting with **View Help**, the HTML Help system:

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This lists and describes all menu items but in succinct fashion since (in addition to a brief **Getting Started** manual which comes with the trial version) there are two comprehensive pdf manuals for PRIMER, and one for PERMANOVA+, opened (if enabled) by the **Help** menu items:

+ **User/Tutorial Manual** (this manual): Clarke KR, Gorley RN (2015) PRIMER v7: *User Manual/ Tutorial*, PRIMER-E, Plymouth, 296pp; 

+ **Methods Manual**: Clarke KR, Gorley RN, Somerfield PJ, Warwick RM (2014) *Change in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation*, 3rd edition, PRIMER-E, Plymouth, 260pp; 

+ **PERMANOVA+ Manual**: Anderson MJ, Gorley RN, Clarke KR (2008) *PERMANOVA+ for PRIMER: Guide to software and statistical methods*, PRIMER-E, Plymouth, 214pp.