These formatting and style guidelines address the actual look of the Help topics. If you follow these guidelines and use the style sheet in the Help Authoring Templates (WHAT30.DOT or WHAT31.DOT), your Help topics will look the same as standard Microsoft Help files. Because these guidelines address formatting and style issues only, they should be implemented in conjunction with the Help organization guidelines in the previous section.
These guidelines assume that you will be using Help Author and the Help Authoring Templates. The authoring templates include formatting styles that match the recommendations in the guidelines. Help authors may add additional formatting styles for their project as needed. Wherever possible, additional styles should be based on the existing styles in the authoring templates. A description of the styles can be found in Chapter 5, “Using Help Author.”