Tools for Creating Custom Help

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Answer Wizard Builder
HTML Help Workshop and Sample Files

Answer Wizard Builder

Download the Answer Wizard Builder from the Office XP Resource Kit (OrkTools.exe).

Answer Wizard is the intelligence engine behind the Office Assistant. The Answer Wizard Builder enables you to create your own Answer Wizard content to address questions specific to your organization. Users sometimes submit questions to the Answer Wizard that it cannot answer, because the questions are unique to your situation. For example, a user might ask for the path to a printer on your local network, or ask for the location of a form on your intranet.

You can use the Answer Wizard Builder utility to add custom Help content to any application that uses the Office Assistant. However, the Answer Wizard Builder will only work on a computer that has Microsoft® Office XP installed.

Install the Answer Wizard Builder

The Answer Wizard Builder is part of the Office XP Resource Kit. To locate the tool, click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, point to Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit Tools, and then click Answer Wizard Builder.

HTML Help Workshop and Sample Files

Download the HTML Help Workshop (HtmlHelp.exe).

Download the sample cascading style sheet (OffStyle.exe).

You can use the HTML Help Workshop to create Help topics that provide information and assistance specific to your organization. You can also integrate those topics with the Microsoft® Project 2002 Help system, or combine them with custom Answer Wizard databases to create a complete assistance solution.

The Microsoft Project Resource Kit also includes a cascading style sheet that you can use to build your own custom Help topics using Microsoft styles. The style sheet, Proj10.css, must be used with Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.

Install the HTML Workshop

The HTML Help Workshop must be installed separately from the other applications—it is not installed by the Office Resource Kit Setup program. To install the HTML Help Workshop, download and then run Htmlhelp.exe from your computer.