In addition to the links offered by Doug you may want to take a look at the free Shalom Help Maker
program. It creates help files in the older .hlp format, not chm type. It is very easy to use. If I
could do it, anyone can. I downloaded the program and within 10 minutes (no joke) I was well on my
way to creating a customized help file for my application. You can find the utility here: