[1.1] What is WinHelp?
[1.2] What are Viewer and
MediaView?
[1.3] What is HTML Help?
[1.4] What's this document all
about?
[1.5] What if this FAQ needs more
information?
[2] How to learn to build WinHelp files
[2.1] Software and Online
documentation
[2.1.1] WinHelp
4.0 Help Authoring Guide (Hcw.hlp)
[2.1.2] What.zip,
Hag.zip, and Whag.zip
[2.1.3] MSDN-CD
[2.2] Books
[2.2.1] Building
Windows 95 Help
[2.2.2] Building
Windows Help Files
[2.2.3] Building
Windows Help Systems
[2.2.4] Creating
Help for Windows Applications/Book and Disk (Popular Applications)
[2.2.5] Designing
Windows 95 Help; A Guide to Creating Online Documents, with CD-ROM
[2.2.6] Designing
Windows Help/Book and Disk 3.5'
[2.2.7] Developing
Online Help for Windows (3.1)
[2.2.8] Developing
Online Help for Windows 95
[2.2.9] Mastering
Windows 95 Help : The Official Book for Help
[2.2.10] Microsoft
Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit : Guide to Creating Help Files for Windows 95 (Microsoft
Professional Editions)
[2.2.11] The
Developer's Guide to WinHelp.EXE
[2.2.12] Windows
95 Help: A Developer's Guide
[2.2.13] Designing
and Writing Online Documentation: Help Files to Hypertext
[2.2.14] The
Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications
[2.3] Magazines (Print and
Online)
[2.3.1] HyperViews
Online
[2.3.2] Visual
Developer
[2.3.3] WinHelp
Journal
[2.4] Courses and Conferences
[2.4.1] Society
for Technical Communication
[2.4.2] Help
University
[2.4.3] WinWriters
[2.4.4] Solutions
[3] WinHelp Question & Answer
[3.1] About Authoring (creating
topic and project files)
[3.1.1] Is there
a current bug list for WinHelp?
[3.1.2] Is there
a style guide for WinHelp? How can I make my help look like Microsoft's help files?
[3.1.3] How do I
insert symbols (such as the copyright symbol) in my WinHelp files?
[3.1.4] How do I
keep popup topics from appearing in the full-text search results?
[3.1.5] How and
why do I use secondary windows?
[3.1.6] What's
the difference between A and K keywords (ALink and KLink)? When do I use each?
[3.1.7] How do I
do sub- and super-scripts in WinHelp?
[3.1.8] Can I
link to a URL (web site) from a help file? How?
[3.1.9] How do I
control the size (and white space) in a popup window?
[3.1.10] Why
can't I set the background color with the \cb help RTF statement?
[3.1.11] Can I
change the color of text hotspots, and/or remove the underscore?
[3.1.12] Should I
hard-code the color of the text of my help system?
[3.2] About Graphics and Segmented
Hypergraphics (SHG files)
[3.2.1] How do I
stop the screen from flickering when my graphics are displayed?
[3.2.2] How do I
replace graphics in Shed without having to recreate all my hotspots?
[3.2.3] Why does
SHED say that my WinHelp 4.0 macro isn't valid?
[3.3] About the WinHelp Compiler
and Help Workshop
[3.3.1] Is there
a de-compiler for WinHelp files?
[3.3.2] Why won't my Word 6.0/7.0 .RTF files compile
with hc31?
[3.3.3] Why won't my Word 8.0 .RTF files compile
with hcrtf (WinHelp 4.0)?
[3.3.4] Why won't
my Word 8.0 .RTF files compile with any WinHelp 3.1 Compiler?
[3.3.5] Why do I
get warning messages and formatting problems when I use Build Tags?
[3.3.6] I get out
of memory errors when running the help compiler. Why?
[3.3.7] I get an
out of file handles error when running the help compiler.
[3.3.8] Why am I
getting a "More opening braces than closing braces" message when I compile?
[3.4] About displaying WinHelp
files (WinHelp Engine and alternatives)
[3.4.1] What are
.GID, .FTS, and .FTG files?
[3.4.2] My help
file has problems when it's used on Windows NT 4.0. Why?
[3.4.3] Can I run
a WinHelp file from a network directory?
[3.4.4] Can I run
a 32-bit Help file from a 16-bit application in Windows 95? Windows NT?
[3.4.5] I'm
getting Topic not found messages when I try to access my context sensitive help. How can I
find the cause?
[3.4.6] Can I
start WinHelp from the command line? Can I display a specific topic when I do?
[3.4.7] How do I
stop punctuation from wrapping to the next line following a hotspot?
[3.4.8] Why does
the wrong Contents/Index display after an interfile jump in WinHelp 4.0?
[3.4.9] Why
aren't Keywords in the Index aren't sorted as I expect?
[3.4.10] Why do I
get the message "This is not a Windows Help File" when I try to run my help on
Windows NT?
[3.4.11] Why does
the Contents tab display on my machine but not on my users' machines?
[3.4.12] How come
jumps from my context sensitive help topics don't work?
[3.4.13] Can I
make the Back button work across secondary windows?
[3.4.14] How can
I view my WinHelp files on the Apple Macintosh? Unix?
[3.5] About WinHelp Macros and DLLs
[3.5.1] When I
sub-class the WinHelp window, my DLL breaks when the help file is executed from the
WinHelp() API function.
[3.5.2] Can I add
full-text search capabilities to my Windows 3.1 Help file?
[3.5.3] Why can't
the programmers can't make correct tab show in Help Topics?
[4] Windows Help Authoring Tools (HATs)
[4.1] Shareware/Freeware
HATs
[4.1.1] AstroHelp
[4.1.2] Create
Help
[4.1.3] DR Help
[4.1.4] DWHAT.ZIP
[4.1.5] EasyHelp/Web
[4.1.6] HELLLP!
[4.1.7] HLPDK
and Interactive Help
[4.1.8] Microsoft
WHAT6
[4.1.9] VB
AHA!!!
[4.2] Commercial
[4.2.1] Doc-To-Help
[4.2.2] ForeHelp/ForeHTML
Pro
[4.2.3] HDK
[4.2.4] HelpBreeze
[4.2.5] HelpBuilder
[4.2.6] HelpHikes
[4.2.7] Help
Magician Pro
[4.2.8] HelpMaker
for AmiPro
[4.2.9] Help
Maker Plus(tm)
[4.2.10] Help
Perfect
[4.2.11] Help
Writer's Assistant
[4.2.12] HelpWriter
for Delphi
[4.2.13] IMWHelp
[4.2.14] MasterHelp
[4.2.15] MIF2RTF
[4.2.16] MiniHelp
Plus
[4.2.17] RoboHELP
[4.2.18] SOS
Help! Info-Author
[4.2.19] UniversalHelp
[4.2.20] VB
Help Writer
[4.2.21] Visual
Help/Visual Help Pro
[4.2.22] VivaTexte
[4.2.23] Windows
Help Designer
[4.2.24] WP2Help
[4.2.25] WYSI-Help
Composer Notes
[5] Other Authoring Tools
[5.1] Shareware/Freeware
[5.1.1] Arsenal
DLL for WinHelp
[5.1.2] Help
Decompiler
[5.1.3] HLP2DOC
[5.1.4] SHGREZ
[5.1.5] TabMaker
[5.1.6] WinHelp
Sorcerer
[5.1.7] WinHelp
-> HLPDK Conversion Tool
[5.2] Commercial
[5.2.1] Help
Author's Resource Kit (HARK)
[5.2.2] HyperHelp
[5.2.3] QuickHelp
[5.2.4] Steve
Sweet's Help Compiler for the Mac
[5.2.5] Windexer
[6] Sources for Undocumented WinHelp Features
[6.1] Magazine
articles
[6.2] Books
[7] Miscellaneous
[7.1] Online Sources of
WinHelp Help
[7.1.1] Newsgroups
[7.1.2] Discussion
Lists
[7.1.3] CompuServe
(CSi)
[7.1.4] WinHelp
Developers' Home Pages
[7.2] Online Sources of
WinHelp Related Software
[7.3] General
Information about WinHelp Compilers (all versions)
[7.4] Limits
[8] Thanks