Hi, Glad I could help. By the way in case most of you don't know when we talk about Windows help we need to make a technical destinction between Microsoft Windows Help 4.0 and earlier and Microsoft HTML Help 1.0 and later. As they are two completely different help systems used by different versions of Windows.
When we talk about Windows clasic Help, Win Help 4.0 and earlier, that was mainly used with Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and early versions of Windows XP. However, about five or six years ago, about the time XP SP2 came out, Microsoft released an all new help system they call HTML Help. In 2007 when they released Windows Vista they deprecated Windows Help and HTML Help became the default help system for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. So the link I gave you below is for the new HTML Help system used by XP SP2 and later just for your information. The main advantages to HTML Help verses Windows Help is you have a lot more control over formatting and can really prepare some professional looking help documents using common html tags/formatting etc. The other is the new HTML Help system actually displays the help documents in a browser window, usually Internet Explorer 7 or 8, so as a result you can use standard Internet web browser commands to navigate around in the help document. For instance, with Window-Eyes 7.5 I can use h to jump to the next section heading, shift+h to jump back to the previous section heading, t to jump to the next table, and shift+t to jump to the prior table, etc. Plus Window-Eyes has some more advanced browser commands like press n and something like 3h to jump directly to the third heading in the help document. So as you can see the new HTML help system is extremely accessible, and if you are good at web browsing in general getting around in the new Windows help is a sinch. Prior versions of Windows Help weren't quite as screen reader friendly although they were accessible. HTH On 3/20/11, Hayden Presley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > Thanks for that. > Best Regards, > Hayden --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
