>Renoir,
>I don't know of a way to save a property back into the class of an executable. But here is an idea to get the HelpContextID into the object at runtime.
>Can you get the name of the object when the user creates a new help screen? If so, store the object name and the new HelpContextId into a table. You may need to store the FormName.ObjectName to uniquely identify it, just be consistent.

Thanks David,

Not the answer I was hoping for - although the one I expected... Didn't want to revamp what I've already written, but the I agree; the flexibility demands that the object's name be used instead of the HelpContextID. Oh, well, that's what Find and Replace is for...

Renoir