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You can add professional polish to your application by adding a graphical Help file in the form of HTML Help or Winhelp. Graphical Help can include graphics and formatted text. .dbf-style Help is limited to a single font without graphics.
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- HTML Help
HTML Help is created with Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, which is included with Visual FoxPro. HTML Help Workshop provides a complete authoring system for HTML Help and includes backwards compatibility that makes it possible for you to easily create HTML Help files from existing Winhelp projects. - WinHelp 4.0
A Help menu typically contains commands that provide access to the topics in your Help system. WinHelp 4.0 features the Help Finder window, which is a single dialog box providing access to contents, index, and full-text searching.
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- Creating Help Files
Help files are a valuable source of information for users of your application. With Visual FoxPro, you can choose to create Winhelp, HTML Help or .DBF-style Help. - Creating .DBF-Style Help
.DBF-style Help is character-based and gives you the flexibility to move your Help file to other platforms. This style of Help is easy to create, because it is based on a Visual FoxPro table.