Microsoft KB Archive/163939

= ODE97: Help Workshop Help Topics Contents =

Article ID: 163939

Article Last Modified on 9/25/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition

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This article was previously published under Q163939



Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.



SUMMARY
The Help Workshop program that is included in Microsoft Office 97, Developer Edition Tools, is a Microsoft Windows 95 program designed to assist you in creating the Help files you will include in your custom application. You use Help Workshop to create some of the files that make up a Help file and to compile them into a Help file.

Some of the tasks you can accomplished using Help Workshop are as follows:


 * You can create project files
 * You can create content files
 * You can compile your Help file
 * You can display, test, and fix any problems involving your Help file



MORE INFORMATION
This article lists the topics covered in the Microsoft Help Workshop Help Topics.

Getting Started


 * What is Help Workshop?
 * Help Workshop components
 * Notational Conventions

What's New in Version 4.0

 WinHelp 4.0

Redesigned User Interface

Improved Authoring Capabilities

New Font-Handling Features

New Compiling and Testing Features

New File-Handling Features

 Help Workshop 4.0

Improved Authoring Capabilities

Font-Handling Features

New Compiling and Testing Features

New File-Handling Features



Designing your Help system


 * Planning your Help system
 * Designing the Contents, Index, and Find tabs
 * Customizing Help windows, menus and buttons
 * Designing Context-sensitive Help
 * Designing training card Help
 * Using graphics, video, and animation
 * Using Help Workshop
 * Designing topics
 * Localizing Help files
 * Adding tabs to the Help Topics dialog box

Step by Step Procedures


 * Creating Topic Files
 * Creating a Project File
 * Creating a Contents File
 * Compiling and Testing a Help File

WinHelp Reference


 * Using Macros
 * Macro Quick Reference
 * Macro Reference
 * Project File Commands
 * Topic File Commands
 * WinHelp Buttons and Menus
 * WinHelp Initialization Files
 * Executable File Commands
 * Developer Considerations
 * Help APIs
 * Full-Text Search APIs
 * Writing DLLs
 * RTF Command Reference

Converting from Viewer 2.0


 * Compiling Viewer 2.0 source files for WinHelp 4.0

