Thanks. I would send you a copy of my help file, but its 1.3 MB and growing fast. (Lots of images and screen shots.)

>I'm not sure about the mapping....
>We have a tech writer that is doing that part of it. I just supply the ID's and he writes the help and maps it to them.
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>We are using a .HLP file instead of .CHM. Wonder if that also makes a difference?
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>I'll forward your questions to the tech writer and see if he knows any of the answers.
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>~ellen
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>>Sorry to let you down, but I tried your suggestions, and again, it always comes up to the first topic in my help file. It does this even when I try and set the HelpContextIds: I get the same behavior.
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>>Do you know if I start defining HelpContextIds in the help file, does every topic need one? Also are there any limitations on size? What about the length of the variable declarations in the include file used to map certain aliases to certain helpcontextids?
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>>What about a limit on the length of the topic aliases themselves?