About Index Files

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Microsoft Corporation

Updated June 10, 1999

The index (.hhk) file is an HTML file that contains the index entries (keywords) for your index. When a user opens the index in a compiled help file, or on a Web page, and clicks a keyword, the HTML file associated with the keyword will open.

Using HTML Help Workshop, you can:

• Create an index.
• Create an index for a Web page.
• Create keywords with multiple targets.
• Create keywords that have links to other help files or to Web pages.
• Create a keyword that jumps to another keyword (similar to a See Also in a book index).
• Assign information types to keywords.
• Set a keyword to be inactive.

After you have created a help system or a Web site, you can view the index file in the Help Viewer or by using a Web browser.