Alison Balter's Mastering Access 97 Development, Second Edition

Chapter 36. Developing a Help File

• Deciding To Create a Help File

• Looking At Help from a User's Perspective

• Planning the Help File

• Building the Help Components

• Adding Custom Help to Your Applications

• Getting Help with Help: Authoring Tools

• Practical Examples: Adding Help to the Time and Billing Application

Deciding To Create a Help File

In a perfect world, you could create an application that would not require any explanation. In this perfect world, your user simply could view any form in your application and instantly know how to use it. No assistance would be required. Unfortunately, the world is not perfect. Even with the elegant graphical user interface that Windows provides, you must give users guidance in using your application. You can accomplish ...