Topic formatting comparison

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