>>>Does HTML help require that IE be installed on the clients machine to work?
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>>I believe there is an HTML Help runtime. You can get info at http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp
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>The Help Viewer requires that Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 3.02 or later) be set up on a user's computer. (From http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp/distrib.asp)
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>To bad, a runtime DLL would make perfect sense. I may have to abandon HTML Help because some clients refuse to have IE installed just to have this type of help.


Hmmm...I thought this wasn't necessary. Now you've got me curious. I'll poke into it a bit myself.