Keep the following in mind when using .HPJ files to create HTML Help projects:
Creating HTML Help from .HPJ files is a process. To ensure that the HTML Help project suits your preferences, review the steps before you start.
All the files referenced by the existing WinHelp project (.HPJ) must be in the locations you specify before you generate the HTML Help files. All of the links will be fully functional in the HTML topics.
Since text formatting and styles are available in .HPJ projects, this information can be used to format the HTML topics. You can create a single style sheet and apply it to all topics. The styles in the style sheet are based on the styles in your .DOC files. (The styles used in templates attached to your .DOC files are transferred into the HTML style sheets.) If the .HPJ project uses multiple documents with different formats, you can create different style sheets for each .DOC file and attach each one to its corresponding topics.
If your WinHelp topics use a combination of defined styles and manual character and paragraph formatting, you can create style sheets that use the same styles from the WinHelp topics and keep the special formats where they are used in your topics.
You can select an existing style sheet that you use with other HTML projects. The style names in the WinHelp topics should be identical to the style names in the style sheet. Also, the paragraphs in the WinHelp topics should be formatted to use these styles. Otherwise, you'll have a lot of manual formatting to do (applying styles from the style sheet to paragraphs in the HTML topics) after the project is generated.
You do not have to use a style sheet at all. The HTML topics will include the formatting from the .DOC files (as inline styles which are individually formatted paragraphs and characters). You can always create styles and apply them to topics after the HTML Help project is created. (If your project is large, you should use style sheets to create the HTML topics. You can revise the styles and the topics will be automatically updated.)
Make a small test project and use it to experiment with the process a few times so you get familiar with the options that are available. Be sure to select different options until the HTML Help output suits your needs.
If you are generating a large project, decide how you want to organize it beforehand. In HTML, you will have one HTML topic file for each WinHelp topic. You have several options for organizing these files. You can save them at the root of the project folder or in a subfolder, create subfolders based on the .DOC file names and save the corresponding topics in them, or save topics based on how they are used as pages in the table of contents (folders are created for each book and subfolders are created for sub-books in your .CNT file).
If you are working with a project that is used in combination with several other WinHelp projects (for example, as a master project), you will need to create HTML Help projects with each .HPJ file separately so all the links work.
After the project is generated, you will want to make a few changes to the style sheet. By default, it uses a gray background. You can change this to white by changing the document properties for the style sheet. For details, see Changing background colors in style sheets.
Tip: You can also add standalone Microsoft Word documents into HTML Help projects. For details, see Importing Word documents.