Accessing On-Line help

XLL and DLL provide direct access to the Windows on-line help mechanism that you call via the F1 key.

To enable this you must ensure the .hlp file resides either:

- In the same local directory where the XLL or DLL reside.

- Or the System directory or a directory in your PATH environment variable. (The quick and dirty solution is to drop the help in the :\windows directory

Calling On-Line Help

To get on-line help press F1

Calling Help through the Office Assistant

Each version of windows has a different way of handling help. This behavior depends 
If you made the mistake of installing office Assistant, F1 won’t call help directly. You must again call “Select Help with this feature….” and then “For help with the Selected Function Click the button below……”.

Calling Help through JavaScript or WSH

To get on-line help, use the show Help function in the help  filename (including relative or absolute path) and the Help Topic ID (if you want the window to start with that topic).

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