Help Files

I am wondering if anyone has a good reference on how to build the actual
help files themselves. I understand how to make the forms and objects point
to "topics" etc, but I cannot find anything that shows me how to build the
actual help file itself.


Thanks,

Scott

Jens
Fri May 21 02:46:12 CDT 2004

Hi Scott,
there is a tool called "HTML Help Workshop" that is delivered with
Windows and is usually installed in your "program files" folder (if
it isn't you can install it from the windows CD).
The tool is not too comfortable, but it will get the job done.

Regards,
Jens

"Scott Cadreau" <scadreau@aros.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Vv6dncptw7mzzzDdRVn-hg@aros.net...
> I am wondering if anyone has a good reference on how to build the actual
> help files themselves. I understand how to make the forms and objects
point
> to "topics" etc, but I cannot find anything that shows me how to build the
> actual help file itself.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>

trw7at
Fri May 21 11:46:14 CDT 2004

Scott Cadreau seemed to utter in news:Vv6dncptw7mzzzDdRVn-hg@aros.net:

> I am wondering if anyone has a good reference on how to build the
> actual help files themselves. I understand how to make the forms and
> objects point to "topics" etc, but I cannot find anything that shows me
> how to build the actual help file itself.

As I always do... I recommend the fine tool HelpAndManual to
build very nice help files very quickly and very easily:

www.helpandmanual.com

-- TRW
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PD
Fri May 21 13:48:43 CDT 2004

Scott,

> I am wondering if anyone has a good reference on how to build the actual
> help files themselves. I understand how to make the forms and objects point
> to "topics" etc, but I cannot find anything that shows me how to build the
> actual help file itself.

You can create an HTML Help file using Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop,
which is available from the following page on the MSDN site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp

For a tutorial on how to use HTML Help Workshop, see:

http://www.mvps.org/htmlhelpcenter/htmlhelp/hhtutorials.html#char_hhw

HTML Help Workshop provides fairly basic authoring facilities, which
is why most people go for tools like RoboHelp, Doc-To-Help, or Help &
Manual. For information on these tools and many others, see:

http://www.helpstuff.com/helpstuff.html#hats
http://www.mshelpwiki.com/index.php?page=ToolsAndTechnologies
http://www.helpmaster.com/

--
Pete (Microsoft Help MVP)