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Introducing HTML Help
New features in this release
Converting existing help projects
The HTML Help Components
The HTML Help Web page
Designing a Help System
Your help system: the big picture
Making your help system accessible
Start a Help System Design
Designing help topics
Planning an index
Planning a table of contents
Making topic or Web page connections
Designing a topic template
Designing a style sheet
Design Help
Using the Help Viewer for topics
Designing help windows
Designing context-sensitive help
Designing training card help
Design for a Web site
Distributing topics over the Internet
Registering a Web site with search engines
Updating and managing a Web site
Creating Help
Create a Help 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
Converting existing help projects
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
Working with ALinks
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 targets
Assign Information Types
Creating information types
Creating categories for information types
Example: using information types
Customize Help
Customize the Help Viewer
Adding a Search tab
Adding a Favorites tab
Create Help Windows
Creating secondary windows
Creating a pop-up window
Creating embedded help windows
Adding buttons to a help window
Compile and Test Help
Compile a Help Project
Compiler messages
File compression
Authoring assistance
HTML markup and the compiler
Viewing compiled help file information
Decompiling a help file
Test a Help System
Creating a process for testing
Testing help files
Monitoring help messages
Using command line switches
Hook up Help to a Program
Example: creating a shortcut
Create Context-Sensitive Help
Example: creating context-sensitive pop-up help
Create Training Card Help
Creating a training card
Manage Large Document Sets
Merging help files at run time
Linking between merged help files
Managing merged index files
Using HTML Help on the Web
Create a Help Web Site
Creating HTML files
Creating a table of contents for a Web site
Creating an index for a Web site
Inserting the HTML Help ActiveX control
Inserting the HTML Help Java Applet
Running a compiled help file from the Web
Create a Frameset
Example: a two-frame frameset
Creating a link to close a frameset
HTML Help References
HTML Help API Reference
HTML Tag Reference
Script and DHTML examples
Create a pop-up window
Store pop-up topics in a text file
Add text pop-ups to an image
Create a new window using JavaScript
Link to a file outside of your help system
Create a global script file
Create expandable sections with DHTML
Create dynamic elements with DHTML
HTML Help Viewer topics
MSDN scripting references
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