WinHelp Conversion to HTML Help

[Dana Worley]

On Tuesday, April 10, 2007, Keith Hansen wrote: 

> Can anyone think of any compelling reasons NOT to convert to HTML help?

No :)  

My personal recommendation (FWIW :) is that anyone who has 
WinHelp projects convert those to some other format as new 
versions of the product are released. We have been using Doc-to-
Help to convert our existing HLP projects (which were created 
without the use of a HAT -- just MS Word 95 and a template). There 
has been relatively little work on the help authors' part -- or the 
developers'  -- to switch from HLP to CHM, and many of our 
products are loaded with context sensitive help.  

The only issue would be that if your customers need to access the 
CHM via a network, you may want to look at some other output 
format (such as "NetHelp" or "WebHelp"  -- name and functionality 
vary depending upon your tool). For reference, see Microsoft KB 
896358 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896358

Regards,

Dana W


***************************
Dana Worley
Software Product Manager/Manager, Software Support Group
Campbell Scientific, Inc. 
Microsoft MVP, Windows Help