In fact, there are various tools in the marketplace from primitive applications to complex and expensive systems for writing technical documentation that support HTML Help as an output format. Everybody of us is probably familiar with the HTML Help viewer, which has the Table of Contents, alphabetical Index, and the Search feature, located on the navigation pane to the left side from the help topic text. Thus, any Windows user will be able to open such a file under Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, and the latest Vista operating system as well.Īn HTML Help CHM file includes all the features to provide the end-user with easily navigated tutorial. Thus, a CHM file is practically a kind of the portable formats for technical documentation, which can be opened on all Windows PCs since Windows 98. An HTML Help system is completely stand-alone and can be distributed as a single file (for example, 'My_Help_File.CHM'). Nowadays, HTML Help CHM is the standard help format used in most modern Windows applications.

Creating chm files