I Recently purchased a book called Microsoft Windows95 Help Authoring Kit from Microsoft Press. It comes with a CD ROM that includes WinHelp 4.0 & Help WorkShop.

The book has step by step instructions and is adequately illustrated.


>>>Is there any shareware or commercial program to build a help system in VFP 3.0b.
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>>>Thanks!
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>>>Patrick Cordeau
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>>We have Doc-2-Help and RoboHelp. I prefer RoboHelp over Doc-2-Help. It is a very smooth process to create help files from MS Word documents using RoboHelp. BlueSky is the vendor, I think they have a www site? Back in January of this year they were the only Win95 Help system available. I spent about 4 hours reviewing the RoboHelp sample files and tutorial and it is easy. Be wary of shareware related to creation of help systems. I used one a couple of years ago (can't remember the name) and after spending lots of time, I found that stupid limitations existed. Not to mention incompatibility with Word Perfect, even though it claimed to process WP files 100%. So beware and good luck.
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> Get some documentation about How to build help files with WordPerfect or Word and do your own code. It is much simpler and you can allways modify your help files anytime. And there is some feature you can do with WordPerfect or Word that you cannot do with shareware.
> I have a book 'INSIDE VISUAL C++ 2nd Edition'. In that book there is a complete chapter about making help files. It is really well explained. The book is produced by Microsoft Press.