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Subject:Re: Online help tool From:William Meisheid <wgm -at- SAGELINE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:14:59 -0400
>In addition, you can put table borders in your help
project. It's not
even tricky, although it would require some overhead if you
had very
many, or wanted them to be searchable.
While putting a graphic in a help topic that shows a
bordered table may be a solution to the display needs of a
specific situation, it is not really putting table borders
in your help project.
I commend David Knopf for making readily available an easy
to follow procedure for encapsulating a complex table into a
graphic and you for suggesting it Julie, but that only
places a picture of a bordered table in the topic, not a
real table border itself.
It is important for us as WinHelp authors to know both the
difference between the authoring tool and the WinHelp engine
and to understand winhelp's limitations. That requires us to
be exceptionally clear about the distinctions in this case.
I hope that helps.
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William Meisheid "Thoughts still and always in progress"
WUGNET/Help Authoring Forum Sysop & Microsoft MVP
Certified RoboHELP Training http://www.sageline.com
Sageline Publishing 410.465.1548 Fax: 410.465.1812
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