diff --git a/man/man1/help-desk.1 b/man/man1/help-desk.1
index 2a2adb52d0..73bf67ab65 100644
--- a/man/man1/help-desk.1
+++ b/man/man1/help-desk.1
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ help-desk \- The PLT Scheme documentation center
 .I term ...
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Help Desk 
-creates an HTML document and opens it in a web browser.
+searches for term in the PLT Scheme documentation and opens an html document in a web browser with the results of the search.
 .PP
 For further information on
 .I Help Desk,