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Building Windows 95 Help, with Disk

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If you are buying this book used, beware of sellers who are offering a book with a floppy disk. This book was issued with a CD. If you get a book with a floppy only, it is misprint, and you are not getting your money's worth. Although the books with diskettes should have been destroyed and never sold under any circumstance, several used books sellers have sold them charging as much as for the real full edition. -- Nancy Hickman, author of Building Windows '95 Help

This book has potential, but when it comes to offering the needed information, it just isn't there. For instance, there is a section where all the macros in WinHelp are listed. If you know anything about Macros, they have parameters and these parameter have very specific formats, allowable entries, etc. While the macros are listed, there's no explanation of the parameters. In addition, finding the information that *is* there is difficult, because the index is inadequate.

This reference book is not for the experienced help author. If you are really trying to "get under the hood", this book isn't going to help. I have found the WinHelp On-Line HAG to be a much better reference than this.