When you choose a new project from the Help and Manual File drop down menu you have several choices, as seen above. If you have created a help file using some other program, you may want to import that project to Help and Manual to see how your help file would look, or even import a Compiled .hlp file you may have on your computer. This would be a quick way to see what a Help and Manual manual could look like. For my purposes, I chose to create a new help project, and then see the next screen.
Just select a folder and type a name for your project.
As seen above, a set of default heading will be created. So I just selected the Welcome Topic and off I went, creating this file.
The area where you type the text for the topic is under the Help text tab. The Topic Options tab is where you enter the Topic ID, Help Window, Keywords and A-Keywords. This tab is important for creating online help because the topic is what is linked to different parts of your application.
The next section will cover the left side of the screen, the Table of Contents Tree.