Re: How to do Online Help Book

["Bergen, Jane" <janeb -at- ANSWERSOFT -dot- COM>]

I'm a little confused. If you can't afford to buy RoboHelp, why buy a
book about it? And WinHelp (which is not an authoring tool) is FREE. It
is an "engine" that just runs the help files that you build. You would
be much better off learning to make simple help files by using a text
editor first, then going to a full-fledged HAT later.

Some books that might help you are:

"Designing Windows 95 Help" by Mary Deaton and Cheryl Zbak, Que Books,
ISBN #0-7897-0362-9

"Developing Online Help for Windows 95" by Boggan, Farkas, and Welinske,
International Thompson Computer Press, ISBN #185032211-2

"Microsoft Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit" by Microsoft Press, ISBN
#1-55615-892-0

Those should get you started. At least two of them, and maybe all, have
the Microsoft Help Workshop utility on a disk.

Good luck,

Jane Bergen, Technical Writer,
AnswerSoft, Inc.     Richardson, TX
(972) 997-8355
janeb -at- answersoft -dot- com


On Friday, November 07, 1997 1:06 PM, Williams, Diane (contractor)
[SMTP:Williams_Diane -at- DOTE -dot- OSD -dot- MIL] wrote:
> I need to know how to do online help. I can't afford to buy RoboHelp
or
> WinHelp or take a $500 course. I'll be unemployed after next Friday.
>
> So, what book would y'all recommend I get to help me get started? I
> can't find any books on RoboHelp at Amazon. I've got a lead on MS's
> WinHelp, but are there any others?


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