Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide

What Kinds of Help Systems Can You Create?

You can use HTML Help to create two types of Help systems. You can:

• Create a compiled Help file that is viewed by using the HTML Help Viewer. This is typically the way HTML Help is used to provide help for an Office solution. For more information about using HTML Help in Office solutions, see "Adding Help to Your Office Solution" later in this chapter.
  
  
• Create Web pages that use the HTML Help ActiveX control or the HTML Help Java applet to implement navigation and secondary window features to display HTML pages and other documents from a Web browser. If you provide the appropriate value for the CODEBASE attribute when you are inserting the HTML Help ActiveX control in a Web page, the control can be installed and downloaded if it isn't already installed when a user opens the Web page. This method can be used to run a locally installed Help system, but it is more typically used to create general-purpose Web sites. For more information about using HTML Help to create a Web site, see "Using HTML Help to Author a Web Site" later in this chapter.