Welcome to Help Basics

Ever wonder just what Help is? What you can use Help for? How a Help file is created? Or maybe you've wondered what your choices are or what the different pieces are that make up a Help system. You've probably heard about HTML Help and WinHelp, but you might want to know more about what they are and when you might want to use one over the other.

Help Basics is intended to introduce and explain the basic concepts of Help. Every author should have at least a rudimentary understanding of Help before trying to create a Help system. Help Basics walks you through the "inner workings" of Help at its simplest level.

Help Basics is intended to: