I'll take a look at those help systems, but I don't really have any budget for it. The problem I'm having is I have no idea where to punch in the help id in HHW. And you're right HHW's own help is useless, which is ironic. Thanks!

>>I'm just getting started using HTML Help workshop and so far it does not seem to be very intuitive. I'm having problems figuring out how to attach a context sensitive help id to a particular topic.
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>>Any ideas? Is this a good help tool or can you recommend something better.
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>You might download the trial versions of ForeHelp from http://www.sinterphase.com/fhintro.htm and West Wind HTML Help builder from www.west-wind.com and build help projects from them. If you like one of those tools and can afford it, just use that. In any case, take the help project built from one of those real tools and open it in HHW. Click the button whose tooltip says "HTML Help API Information" to see where your context-sensitive stuff went.
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>I found HHW's own help to be useless in explaining how context-sensitive help actually works. In general, since it is partly a general Windows problem and partly a problem specific to VFP or some other development environment, it falls through the cracks of help menus and also books. Another problem is the newness of HTML Help.
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>ForeHelp is a general purpose help builder. The "pro" version is needed to build HTML help. It has a fully functional shareware version that is limited to 20 topics. West Wind HTML Help builder builds only HTML help, not winhelp. It includes unique tools for documenting VFP projects which no other tool is likely to have. Its free version uses a nag screen. You also might hear about RoboHelp. They offer a 30 day guarantee, but no free trial version.