reworded pad gaps.

diff --git a/help/html/menus/alignmentMenu.html b/help/html/menus/alignmentMenu.html
index ee8661f..9fb408d 100755 (executable)
--- a/help/html/menus/alignmentMenu.html
+++ b/help/html/menus/alignmentMenu.html
@@ -148,11 +148,13 @@
         sequences. The &quot;Undo&quot; button will undo the last redundancy deletion.</em></li>\r
   <li><strong>Pad Gaps<br>\r
     </strong><em>When selected, the alignment will be kept at minimal\r
-    width (no empty columns before or after the first or last aligned\r
-    residue). This is useful when making a tree using unaligned\r
+    width (so there no empty columns before or after the first or last aligned\r
+    residue) and all sequences will be padded with gap characters to\r
+    the before and after their terminating residues.<br>\r
+    This switch is useful when making a tree using unaligned\r
     sequences and when working with alignment analysis programs which\r
     require 'properly aligned sequences' to be all the same length.<br>\r
-    You may set the default gap character in <a href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>. \r
+    You may set the default for <strong>Pad Gaps</strong> in the <a href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>. \r
     </em></li>\r
         </em><br>\r
       </li>\r