International Business Machines Corporation

Janet L Leskovec

Keith Allen Wells

Lynn Cleveland Percival

Gregory F Bush

Carl T Anderson

Michael Anthony Faoro

Alberta Lee

Susan E Liles

Susan E Kahler

A method and system for providing user assistance in utilizing a computer program is disclosed that provides the capability for combining an active display of the past, current, and future steps in an ongoing process with a series of associated decision panels and forms to be completed in order to carry out the steps. A navigator bar, which is situated adjacent to and can be scrolled independently of information appearing in a client area of a computer screen display, provides a user of the computer program with a map of the steps already executed, the current step being executed, and the most likely steps to be performed based on the current step being executed. If the user selects a different step to be the current step, the display of most likely future steps to be performed changes, if appropriate.

User assistance system

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Janet L Leskovec