>I have downloaded and looked at it. It might be OK for my own class documentation, but it is still too cryptic and non WYSIWYG for those who will be doing my help system. I need something that takes no more skill or knowledge than using Word.

I agree. Help Builder is a tool aimed at developers who create help and especially developers building help for other developers. Help Builder works nice for end user help too, but it's not fully graphic (if you do only help topics that have body you can actually use the visual edit mode, but it's flakey due to the DHTML Edit control bugs).

What Help Builder excels at is controlling content consistently and creating the help file layout. This is something I've always found lacking in other help systems. If I want to change something across the project, it's a hassle with other tools - it's a breeze in Help Builder. Plus you can program the whole thing and even create programmable topics that can auto-generate things like class member lists, or recently changed topics, creating custom table of contents etc. Using VFP code no less <s>...



>>For about $200 you can get Rick Strah's HTML Help Builder. See http://www.west-wind.com This was developed with VFP in mind.

Actually it turns out that way, because it was built with VFP, but really the focus is on COM and extensibilty into other areas. It's been doing really well with the non-VFP crowd since I posted it on some standard shareware sites.

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