>is it possible to create a help file from a word document ?
>how ?
Basically, the old-style help (HLP) is created from RTF files, whereas the new-style help (CHM) is created from HTML files. So, I think that in either case you would need to do a conversion.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)