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Is the on-line Help a Windows Help file? If so, there is an annotation menu item
in the standard Windows help engine - select Edit / Annotate from the help menu
when displaying a topic. You can then write in a comment. A little paper clip
appears in the topic header to indicate it has annotations.
The annotations are written to a file <helpfile>.ann.
One drawback to this is that Windows automatically deletes the annotation file
whenever you issue a new version of the help file. Or maybe that is an
advantage?....
Another alternative is to use a product called Interactive Help, which lets you
add pop-up dialogs that you can type into to a Help file.
Jim
In your message dated Thursday 29, June 1995 you wrote :
....
> I was just talking with my boss and she was wondering if there is some
> way to manage online document review and editing. Is there some sort
> of software that will lay on top of an online help file to enable
> someone to make comments that can be easily removed after the help
> file is corrected? We are having a problem managing our online
> document review process. Currently, we are printing out the online
> help file and marking a hard copy. This wastes paper, and it is slow
> to print these files. Also, you can't tell where the links are in a
> hard copy.
