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Help for HTML Help

Microsoft HTML Help

Table of contents

• 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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