Chapter 22: Providing Help for Your Applications
In This Chapter
• Providing user help for your applications
• Using only the components supplied with Excel to provide help
• Displaying help files created with the HTML Help system
• Associating a help file with your application
• Displaying HTML Help in other ways
Help for Your Excel Applications
If you develop a nontrivial application in Excel, you may want to consider building in some sort of help for end users. Doing so makes the users feel more comfortable with the application and could eliminate many of those time-wasting phone calls from users with basic questions. Another advantage is that help is always available: That is, the instructions for using your application can't be misplaced or buried under a pile of books.
Online help?
In the past, I've referred to Excel's on-screen assistance as online help. In fact, that's the common name for this type of assistance. But in recent years, the term online has come to refer to information available through the Internet. Some people were confused by the expression online help because the help information is actually stored on their local drives.
About the examples in this chapter
Many of the examples in this chapter use a common workbook application to demonstrate various ways ...
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