PRB: "Help Author On" Appears in Help Title Bar

Last reviewed: March 6, 1996
Article ID: Q147864

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface included with:

    - Microsoft Windows NT version 3.51
    - Microsoft Windows 95 version 4.0
    - Microsoft Win32s version 1.3

SYMPTOMS

After you run Microsoft Help Workshop, the text in the title bar for all of your help files may display a number followed by the following text:

   (Help Author On)

This text will replace the title of the help file that normally appears.

CAUSE

The "Help Author" command is provided by the Help Workshop to provide additional authoring information and debugging capabilities. Whenever Help Author is active, the title bar will display the topic number of the currently displayed topic and the "Help Author On" message.

By design, once turned on, Help Author remains active until it is disabled, even if the Help Workshop is no longer running.

RESOLUTION

To disable Help Author, clear the Help Author check box in the Help Workshop's File menu. For the change to take effect, you must exit the Help Workshop.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Under Windows 95 or Win32s, this setting corresponds to the following line in the [Windows Help] section of the Win.ini file. Note that a value of 1 indicates that Help Author is enabled and a value of 0 indicates that Help Author is disabled:

   Help Author=1

Under Windows NT, this setting corresponds to the following entry in the registry:

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Help\
   Help Author:REG_SZ:1

Additional reference words: 1.30 4.00 hcw compiler
KBCategory: kbtool kbprb
KBSubcategory: TlsHlp

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Last reviewed: March 6, 1996
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