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Subject:Re: Web help for dialog boxes From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Ken Stitzel <kstitzel -at- symplified -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:21:37 -0800
If you're documenting Windows programs, help topics can be mapped to pretty
much anything that comes up on the screen, including buttons, fields,
dialog boxes, etc. I don't know about Mac or Unix/Linux, but my guess is
they can as well.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Ken Stitzel <kstitzel -at- symplified -dot- com>wrote:
> As I understand it, however, web help plain and simple cannot do this
> (open help at the dialog level). Is this true?
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