Windows Help Project Editor

Windows Help Project Editor (WHPE) is the part of Microsoft Help Author that you use to create and edit Help project files and to compile Help files from within Windows. The Help Project Editor makes creating Help files easier for Help authors.

When you create a Help project file, you generally follow these steps:

nEnter project information

nAdd the topic files to the project

nSpecify Help project options

nSave your work

nCompile the Help file

nView the built Help file

Note Although the Help Project Editor makes it much easier to create and edit Help project files, it does not directly support every option available in Windows Help version 3.1. The following sections describe the features that it does support. If you want to use a feature not supported directly by the Help Project Editor, you should use Word for Windows or another text editor to open the Help Project file and add the features you want. You can still use the Help Project Editor after that, and it will not change any of the features you add. (For detailed information on all the 3.1 Help Project file features, refer to Chapter 16, “The Help Project File.”)