Larry,
Well, I waited a while to see if anyone else had a solution for your question before I gave my 0.02, but here it is: The only way I know in VFP to bring up the contents section of a help file is to use the system menu bar definition _MST_HPSCH.

_That's all I got...
Mark

>Using the VFP help designer (as poor as it may be) in windows help mode (vs help table mode), what do you have to do to get the Table of Contents to show if you are NOT on an object that has a help id assosciated with it? Currently it brings up the first topic in the list.