Armature prorblems

New to blender and following tutorials about how to animate a person. Created armatures but the skinning menu doesn’t give the “create from closest bones options” stopping the process. any advice?

thanks

Use “create groups with bone heat”… it works better than that older option.

thanks for your help, that option gives me an error message though…

I could be more help if you could say exactly what that error message is…