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Add Help to a form

A Help file cannot be associated with a form, so you cannot use the HelpContextID property to create Help for a Microsoft Outlook form. Instead, you can use the following steps to add a page of explanatory text to your form.

1. Click the page to which you want to add text.
2. On the Form menu, click Rename Page.
3. In the Page name box, type Help, and then click OK.
4. Drag a TextBox control from the Control Toolbox to the form.
5. Right-click the TextBox control, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
6. On the Display page, select Multi-line check box.
7. Type the explanatory text that you want in the TextBox control.
8. Right-click the TextBox control, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
9. On the Display page, select the Read only check box.

Note  If the Compose page is different from the Read page, you may need to create separate Help pages.