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> One thing to add... if you've purchased the WinHelp Office suite,
> there's a nifty util included called WinHelp BugHunter. This
> handy-dandy little item allows you to figure out what the heck the
> context IDs are (if your programmers are as vague as mine!). You just
> launch BugHunter (which stays on top of all apps), then click Help or
> press [F1] in the app for which you are trying to link context help. The
> ID appears (in decimal) in the BugHunter window. Then you just need
> to convert that number to Hex and match it to the number in the .HM.
> Simple (and this way I don't have to depend on the programmer's to
> remember to give me the IDs! <grin>)!
This really is a great tool, but it doesn't work when you are running
under NT 3.51. I was so glad when our product was finally compatible with
95!!
