>can anyone tell me how I can include on-help with my application and insert my own user's manual for an application that i have written?

Hi Jeff,

What we do here is call a .pdf document using the Shellexecute method.

DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute ;
IN SHELL32.DLL ;
INTEGER nWinHandle,;
STRING cOperation,;
STRING cFileName,;
STRING cParameters,;
STRING cDirectory,;
INTEGER nShowWindow

* Execute the function
* 'cpath_str' is the full pach & name of the file
nexecute_success = ShellExecute(0,"open",cpath_str,"","",1)
* If the function was unable to open the file for ANY reason
IF nexecute_success < 32
MESSAGEBOX("Help file to come.", 48, "")
ENDIF

HTH
Mike