JAL-1793 basic help text for VCF option

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           features</a> or <a href="../features/annotationsFormat.html">alignment
           annotations</a>.
     </em></li>
+    <li><strong>Load VCF File<br>
+    </strong><em>Load VCF annotations from a plain text or tab-indexed file.
+    <br>This option is offered for nucleotide alignments, and requires at least one
+    sequence to have known genomic coordinates.
+    <br>Genomic coordinates are attached to entries retrieved from Ensembl.
+    <br>Support for VCF was added in Jalview 2.11.
+    </em></li>
     <li><strong>Close (Control W)</strong><br> <em>Close
         the alignment window. Make sure you have saved your alignment
         before you close - either as a Jalview project or by using the <strong>Save