Michelle,

I would highly recommend investing in a commercial product. It may cost a few hundred dollars, but it will save you many hours. RoboHelp is one of the best. Doc-to-help is nice if you want to maintain user docs and help in a single document.

You can probably find both at http://www.provantage.com.

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>Ok, I've read the chapter on creating help in version 5 of the VFP book I have. It's better than the 3.0 one was as for explaining what help's all about. I tried doing the example they have using Word to make the file. I got maybe 6 steps in and said _forget it!_
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>There has to be an easier way than going up and down putting footnotes here there and everywhere. What a mess!
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>So what's a good one?
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>Thanks,