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One of the best books I've seen on the subject is "Developing Online Help for Windows" from SAMS Publishing. Of course, nothing beats the "HAG" the Microsoft Help Authoring Guide. It's available as (what else?) a Windows Help file. Download HAG.ZIP from the Trends library in the PC Magazine EDITORIAL forum. (GO EDITOR) There are a number of commericial programs out there for helping you to design Help files. RoboHelp and Doc-to-Help are the best-known. There are also a number of shareware programs that you can download from ZiffNet. Most of them can be found in the Public Brand Software forums. (GO PBS). There is a copy of Visual Help here in the Windows Sources Forum (VH.ZIP in Lib3) that allows you to build Help files from scratch by using drag & drop techniques.