You can change the formatting of topics, including the styles, text colors, and tables. The following information explains how formatting works in WinHelp and HTML Help.
WinHelp |
Microsoft HTML Help |
Microsoft Word templates (.DOT) |
Cascading Style Sheets (.CSS) |
Individual blocks of text (characters and paragraphs) can be manually formatted |
Individual blocks of text can be manually formatted (inline styles) |
In Microsoft Word, styles can be created for individual documents and applied to characters and paragraphs |
Embedded styles can be created in single HTML files |
Document styles are available for all WinHelp topics in the same file |
Embedded styles can be applied to any text within the single HTML file Embedded styles are only available for a single HTML Help topic (not available with other topics in the project) |
Word templates can be created and linked to one or multiple documents |
External style sheets can be created and linked to one or multiple HTML files All topics that are linked to style sheet can use the same styles |
When a style is changed in the template, all topics that are linked to the template are automatically updated |
When a style is changed in the style sheet, all topics that are linked to the style sheet are automatically updated |
When a style is added to template, it is available to all topics that are linked to the template |
When a style is added to style sheet, it is available to all topics that are linked to style sheet |