Custom Help Files

[Melanie Lenard]

I am building an EXCEL application in VBA and I would like to have a custom
help file.

Using the VBA help, I found the following information:
"To create a custom Help file, use a product or tool that creates Windows
Help files."

Where do I find such a product or tool?

[John Walkenbach]

RoboHelp is one such product, but it's rather expensive.

Go here:

http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/

Then do a search for "help files." You'll find lots of freeware and
shareware products that may be of use.

If your help requirements aren't too extensive, you can create a help system
using Excel. There's an example at my web site:

http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/tips/tip51.htm

And, my "Excel 2000 Power Programming With VBA" has an entire chapter
devoted to help systems for Excel apps.

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Melanie Lenard <mle...@veriomail.com> wrote in message
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[Ian Pratt]

Melanie,
Microsoft provide an application called hhw.exe which you can download
from theit site. It comes with a compiler and a screen copy application
called Flash. I can't remember the url but if you search on hhw.exe
you'll find it. Be warned there is quite a lot of reading to do to get
you started composing the help files but it is well worth the effort.
Regards
Ian pratt