Context String Guidelines

When creating context strings, follow these guidelines:

nEvery topic should have at least one context string, and that string must be unique within the Help file.

nContext strings can contain the alphabetic characters A–Z (uppercase or lowercase), the numeric characters 0–9, and the period (.) or the underscore (_) character. Even though Windows Help doesn’t distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters, you might want to mix the case of characters to make the string more readable, as in this example:

# Saving_RTF_Files

nContext strings can have as many as 255 characters. However, shorter strings are easier to remember and easier to type when referencing them in jump, pop-up, and macro hot spots.