How do I create custom heip?

[Sharon Williams]

I would like to add custom help to my application instead of the Access help that is now available with F1. I have Office 2000 and do not have Developer. I could also add custom help with each form. What's the best way to do this? Do I need a program that I don't have and if so, which one?

Any help would be appreciated.

Sharon

 

[Shep]

Did you look up 'help files' in help?

Sharon, Sharon...tsk

 

[Sharon Williams]

Well, now I,m confused, because I cannot get what I want when I look in "Help". Either I am not asking the right thing or I have not explained it well or ??? Does anyone understand what I mean? I want to create my own help, not what is there. I think I would write it up in Word or other word processer, then compile and save as a help file or html or ????. The problem is I don't seem to have any way to do either of those things.

If I have the capability to do this with what I have, could someone please point me in the right direction, because I am missing something.

Sharon

 

[Mile-O]

Why not just creat a table called tblHelp with Fields such as Topic, Question, and Answer?

And then make a form with which the user can select the questions they want, under various topics, and your database will respond with the answer.

 

[ritchieroo]

Help authoring is a job in itself

If you want professional looking results, and can write HTML you can compile your own .CHM file.

Go here for free download... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...tmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp

how well this integrates with your application will depend... Access97 only integrates with old-fashioned .HLP format (I never found a decent free compiler for these, although one is supplied if you buy the SDK). The CHM format is much easier to work with, I'm not sure if later versions of Access support it, but I would hope so.

 

[Oldsoftboss]

I use a program called HelpScribble. Really easy to use. Download it from helpscribble.com !
I whipped up a quick demo, just do the following:
Install the files to C:\My Documents to see it work. I've also incluced the helpscribble construction file to see how it works

 

[Sharon Williams]

Thank you. I think helpscribble is what I need.

Sharon