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From: johnha@microsoft.UUCP (John HAGERSON)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Windows Help format
Message-ID: <55638@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 01:52:30 GMT
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Reply-To: johnha@microsoft.UUCP (John HAGERSON)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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You said "don't tell me to get the SDK," but almost all the tools
necessary to create Help files are there.  An RTF-aware (Rich Text
Format) word processor is not included; Word for Windows is recommended
for that purpose.

The process is quite straightforward, but, like so much involved with
Windows programming, quite involved.  You have to lay out the text,
determine where the jumps are and all the destinations.  You then code
this information in the word processor and a compiler spits out the
Help file for Windows Help.

John Hagerson

Discliamer:  I don't speak for Microsoft, and it doesn't speak for me.