Linking CHMs into Microsoft Office help

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mgrace
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Linking CHMs into Microsoft Office help

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Hi,

My company are developing a PowerPoint plug-in application and would like the help files to be searchable from within the Office help sidebar.

Does anyone know if this is possible please?

Many thanks,
Martin
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Alexander Halser
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It is possible, to integrate help into MS Office, but a few extra steps are required. The Office 2007 help format is MS Help 2.0 or "Visual Studio Help" as it is called in Help & Manual.

Here is a link to a more detailed step-by-step instruction:
http://www.helpware.net/mshelp2/Collect ... 12Help.htm
Alexander Halser
Senior Software Architect, EC Software GmbH
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