Download Help Macro Reference for Non-Programmers

Help Macro Reference for Non-Programmers

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The rest of the reference is all stolen from Jim Mischel's valuable work—The Developer's Guide to WinHelp.EXE.

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Working with Graphics

256-color hotspot editor

256color WMFs in Winhelp 3.1

Bitmaps and Large Font video driver

Background graphic or texture

Bleeding Graphics - gory!

Graphic popup without white space

Text on both sides of bitmap

Line up bitmaps in non-scroll region

Powerpoint graphics in Help

Sizing bitmap with Paintbrush

Scaling screen captures

Laying text over a graphic

Outline .SHG hotspots

Create irregular shaped hotspots

Save tedium in Shed.exe

Shg to Bmp

Working with Macros — part1

Add Print and Exit buttons

Add buttons as a menu item

Add WinHelp 4 functions to 3.1 Help in Windows95

Cascading menu madness!

Changing title text of window

Contents to secondary window

Close secondary windows

Copying popup topics

Detect executable and run file

Determine operating system in WinHelp

Copy topic to Notepad

Display document from Help file

Disable standard menu items

Disable system close button

ExecProgram in [Config] vs hotspot

ExtInsertItem and ExtInsertMenu Parameters

Force topic to secondary window from Search

Undocumented "Generate" macro

.INI file creation from Help

Install program from Help

Jumping to another help file

Working with Macros — part2

Lotus ScreenCam from Help file

Main and secondary window open at launch

Message boxes

Non-sizeable windows

Panes!

Play videos (avi, flc, etc.)

Play sounds

Positioning popups

Positioning AVI movie

Print topic without viewing

Remove default button bar

Remove default menu bar

Remove default window frame

Restricting access to topics

Return button for interfile jumps

Right click menu with separators

Splash Screen!

SendMessage() equivalents of WinHelp 3.1 macros

Stringing macros

'Up' button macro

Using conditional macros

Working with Word Processors

Adobe Acrobat Reader tips

Autotext fields

Bullet problems with MS Word and Help

Call context sensitive help with MS Word macro

Disappearing Apostrophes

Hidden paragraph error

Hotspot Crosses Paragraph Boundary error

Insert non-executing source code

Keywords which differ by case

Sizing popups with tables

Tables with borders

Wrapping, or relative, tables

Smart Quotes in Word

Put citation in topic printing

Special symbols in Help

Topic list generator

Convert selected text to K footnote

Word macros: Create bitmap list; Delete browse footnotes; Get topic footnotes; Hide keyword footnotes; Replace Smart Quotes; Replace symbols with WinHelp equivalents; Table to columns