Creating Underlined Hot Spots Without Color

You can create underlined hot spots in your Help topics. Underlined hot-spots appear to the user as normal, solid- or dotted-underlined text without the standard green hot spot color. However, the Windows Help cursor changes to a hand pointer when it is over the hot spot. Underlined hot spots are a useful way to remove the default green color but retain the underlining as the hot-spot indicator.

To create an underlined hot spot

1.1.Follow the steps to create a standard jump hot spot, pop-up hot spot, or macro hot spot.

2.2.Insert an asterisk (*) as the first character of the context string (just before the exclamation point if it is a macro hot spot).

Note The asterisk must be formatted as hidden text.

Figure 8.x shows a correctly formatted underlined hot spot in a topic file.