Introducing HTML Help

Microsoft Corporation

Updated: October 29, 1998

Microsoft HTML Help is a set of technologies for delivering help and Web content using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML Help is designed for authors or developers who create content for software programs, multimedia titles, intranets, extranets, or for the Internet.

HTML Help uses the underlying components of Microsoft Internet Explorer to provide navigational controls that allow users to easily find and sort information. HTML Help also provides a set of tools that assist authors in creating and organizing content delivered with the navigational controls.

HTML Help 1.1

HTML Help is free to download and can be used now to deliver help systems.

Download Microsoft HTML Help 1.1

Upgrade from Microsoft HTML Help version 1.0 to version 1.1

More information about HTML Help

• HTML Help features
• Redistribution files (in 28 language versions)
• The HTML Help MVP Program
• The Official Microsoft HTML Help Authoring Kit
• MSDN article: Making the big move to HTML Help
• C/C++ Users Journal: The New HTML Help Standard

• Added an Alpha version of the HTML Help Installation and Update package (Hhupd.exe) version 1.1a to the download page.
• Added all documentation components, including the authoring guide and the reference guides, to this Web site for users to download.
• Posted new events to the HTML Help calendar.
• Added information about using embedded windows with HTML Help to the HTML Help Frequently Asked Questions list.

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