Re: CHMs, DFDs, and TGIF

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

Office 2007's help is not all on the Web, and there's a little
drop-down menu at the bottom right of the help viewer (clview.exe)
that lets you choose between "Show content from Office Online" and
"Show content only from this computer."

The HTML Help viewer (hh.exe) is still bundled with Windows.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM, sbuckley <sbuckley -at- onlinewriter -dot- com> wrote:
> The new Help you're seeing (Office and that) is actually all on the Web.
> They make it look a bit different than a regular browser experience because
> they want it to meld with the program for which the user is getting Help.
> As far as I know there is no way for an outside company to write for that.
> You would need to work with your own company Web site to do something
> similar.  MS is doing this work so that they can provide up to date Help.
>
> You can still provide .chm as long as the viewer is available on the user's
> computer.  As noted in another post earlier MS is still providing .chm files
> so more than likely the .chm viewer is there.  Test on a computer you think
> your users will have to make sure.  Otherwise you can, last I looked,
> provide the .chm viewer as part of your install.
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