No Help Menu on my Mac

I often use the help menu in the Finder. However, when I pull down the help menu in the finder, a blank dialog box comes up with no help? Any tips

Philip,
If you need more reassurance, I have done something like what Kappy described numerous times with absolutely no untoward consequences. I have had the Help window disappear at least a half dozen times during the past several months. I have a Stickies note with the names of the help.plist files and helpui folder Kappy listed. I then immediately go to my Macintosh HD/Users/myusername/Library/Preferences folder and move the com.apple.help.plist and the com.apple.helpviewer.plist files to the Trash and then in the Macintosh HD/Users/myusername/Caches folder, move the com.apple.helpui folder to the Trash.
At first I only removed the .plist files, without removing the com.apple.helpui folder which Kappy included, and it worked to let me use Help again immediately, but the problem kept recurring. After also removing the com.apple.helpui folder, it seems the problem is gone.
Also, at first I moved them to the Desktop, as conelius suggested so I could get them back if it caused problems, but now I just move them directly to the Trash and empty it. A restart is not required as it is when removing some system .plist files, and Help works perfectly again. The system will automatically replace those corrupted files with fresh new files when it does not find them in the Preferences and Caches folders.
I’m not the OP so I can’t give you a star, Kappy, but with five bars already, you probably wouldn’t notice. I can give you my thanks, though.

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