C
Chaplain Doug
I have asked with various posts first how to use HTML Help
Worshop to set up a context-sensitive help file and then
how to have it come up in my Access application. These
questions were answered by two articles.
1. How to Make context-sensitive Help File. This can be
found in OFFXPDEV: How to Create Context-Sensitive HTML
Help Files at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=kb;EN-US;296231
Also a neat free tool to use with HTML Help Workshop is
provided at:
http://www.keyworks.net/keytools.htm
2. How to make it work in your Access application. This
can be found in OFFXPDEV: Custom Help File Is Displayed in
Access Help Window at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;275117&Product=acc2002#appliesto
The code is provided. I placed the code in a separate
module called "Utility Routines" and made sure all
routines and functions were Public. In your forms make
sure that you set the Help Context ID under Others in each
control's properties. If you want to add a general "Help"
button on the form have it call the subroutine ShowHelp
with MYContextID pointing to the main or first topic in
your help file (in my case 1000).
Show_Help(HelpFileName As String, MycontextID As Long)
Thanks everyone for the help provided by:
David Epsom
Dirk Goldgar
Pete Lees
MikeB
Worshop to set up a context-sensitive help file and then
how to have it come up in my Access application. These
questions were answered by two articles.
1. How to Make context-sensitive Help File. This can be
found in OFFXPDEV: How to Create Context-Sensitive HTML
Help Files at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=kb;EN-US;296231
Also a neat free tool to use with HTML Help Workshop is
provided at:
http://www.keyworks.net/keytools.htm
2. How to make it work in your Access application. This
can be found in OFFXPDEV: Custom Help File Is Displayed in
Access Help Window at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;275117&Product=acc2002#appliesto
The code is provided. I placed the code in a separate
module called "Utility Routines" and made sure all
routines and functions were Public. In your forms make
sure that you set the Help Context ID under Others in each
control's properties. If you want to add a general "Help"
button on the form have it call the subroutine ShowHelp
with MYContextID pointing to the main or first topic in
your help file (in my case 1000).
Show_Help(HelpFileName As String, MycontextID As Long)
Thanks everyone for the help provided by:
David Epsom
Dirk Goldgar
Pete Lees
MikeB