Creating Help

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Microsoft Corporation

Updated June 10, 1999

Creating a help project

The HTML Help project (.hhp) file organizes all elements of a help system. It contains pointers to all of the HTML topic, image, index, and contents files in a help project. You can also add links to your files and assign information types.

• Converting an existing project
• Creating a project file
• Adding index, contents, and image locations
• Editing project options
• Setting Help Workshop preferences for projects

Create HTML topic files

• Creating HTML files
• Creating HTML topics from WinHelp topics
• Viewing HTML files
• Adding HTML tags and other elements to files
• Inserting the HTML Help ActiveX Control into a file
• Inserting the HTML Help Java applet

Use topic templates

• Creating a topic template
• Example: topic templates

Use cascading style sheets

• Creating a cascading style sheet
• Example: cascading style sheet

Work with links

• Creating text links
• Creating links to other help files
• Working with bookmarks
• Working with KLinks
• Example: Create an ALink using a text link

Create a table of contents file

• Creating a contents file
• Creating links to the Web
• Customizing a table of contents
• Creating links from one contents file to another

Create an index file

• Creating an index file
• Creating links to the Web
• Creating a keyword
• Creating a keyword with multiple destinations

Assign information types

• Creating a list of information types
• Creating categories for information types
• Example: Using information types