David,

I just tried a test form and the context sensitive help worked just as advertised.

Hmmm, maybe the framework has used ON KEY to somehow change the F1 key to always bring up the help contents. I guess I'll have to do some digging. Thanks again for your help.

- Mark

>Mark,
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>It sounds as though SET HELP is not set to your help file. You do not need to set individual controls unless you want them to display their own topic. If a control does not have a HelpContextID VFP will send the HCID of the form to the help engine.
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>>Well, I tried setting the form's HelpContextId to 16. When that didn't work, I did a select all in design mode and set everyone's HelpContextId to 16. When that didn't work I tried setting the WhatsThisHelpId to 16 as well.
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>>For some reason, the form is passing the context ID 1879048194 to the help engine instead of 16 (even though the form's help context id is 16). I'm stumped.