Help Files

[Joe Holzhauer]

Forgive my ignorance; how would I go about creating a custom help file for
my application?

Is there a third-party editor I need to get, or can I design it as a Word
document/html/some other file type?

Thanks!
Joe

 

[Douglas J Steele]

Tony Toews has a slightly outdated introduction to the topic at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/accshelp.htm

Remember that "a custom help file" is a relative thing. A Word document can
certainly provide all of the information required, although you won't be
able to do advanced things like letting the users hit F1 in a field and get
context-sensitive help for that field.

 

[Jeff Conrad]

in message:

Forgive my ignorance; how would I go about creating a custom help file for
my application?

Is there a third-party editor I need to get, or can I design it as a Word
document/html/some other file type?

Hi Joe,

I'm not sure if this one is on Tony's list or not.
You could download the new Shalom help utility from the following site:

http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/shelpm/index.html

I was creating my own Help files in just a few minutes with this utility.