Creation of Help Files

  • Thread starter Steve Murphy (Kuwait in Army**US)
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Steve Murphy (Kuwait in Army**US)

I have created a Access to manage cargo movement. Is there a way to develop a
Help file that closely if not exactly resembles usual help files?

Steve
 
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Nick Coe \(UK\)

Steve said:
I have created a Access to manage cargo movement. Is there
a way to
develop a Help file that closely if not exactly resembles
usual help
files?

Steve
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Steve,

You've a fair bit of choice. I've got a draft of an article
on help creation here:

http://www.alphacos.co.uk/html/writehelp.html

There are also a number of useful links in the article but
make sure you look at:

http://www.mshelpwiki.com/index.php?page=MSHelpWiki

http://www.mvps.org/htmlhelpcenter/

Tony Toews:
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/accshelp.htm

And Helpmaster
http://www.helpmaster.com/

I would of course like you to buy a copy of my program
AccHelp but honesty compels me to say it's a bit early in
your learning process for that and anyway you should test
the free version first.

Personal preferences vary but my favourite (price vs
performance) Help Authoring tool is HelpScribble:
http://www.helpscribble.com/

Good luck

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Nick Coe (UK)
AccHelp v1.01 Access Application Help File Builder
http://www.alphacos.co.uk/
Download Free Copy
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Steve Murphy (Kuwait in Army**US)

Nick appreciate the feedback. I am relieved you are from the UK atleast your
in my timezone, kinda. Ok, how did you create your first Access help program?
 
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Nick Coe \(UK\)

Steve said:
Nick appreciate the feedback. I am relieved you are from
the UK
atleast your in my timezone, kinda. Ok, how did you create
your first
Access help program?
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SNIP

Steve,
We're on GMT (Zulu) now so that's 3 or 4 hours I guess. I
haven't a clue actually.. :)

I'm not going to go into the gory detail of my first help
file, there isn't the time. In summary, I made a WinHelp
file, I put my help filename in each form's HelpFile
property without path so that it has to be put in the same
folder as the application. I put HelpContextID's in the
selected forms but NO controls. I use 1000 then 2000 then
3000 etc for form HelpID's.

I wrote a rtf file using Word with those HID numbers as
#endnotes then used MSFT's WinHelp Workshop to map
1000=1000, 2000=2000 and so on, included the rtf and made a
help file. It took me bl@@dy ages to figure it out.

Don't repeat that. Get a help authoring prog, the demo
version of HelpScribble will do to experiment with.

Read up all the references I put in my last post and
experiment.


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Nick Coe (UK)
AccHelp v1.01 Access Application Help File Builder
http://www.alphacos.co.uk/
Download Free Copy
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