For the past few weeks Ive been looking at windows help making software, ive demo'd about 10 different ones, all ranging in price from $15.00 to $100.00

Would you believe that the freeware 'Help maker' is the best one I tried!

Shalom Help Maker:

www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/shelpm/ (http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/shelpm/)

It's not free, but I have used "Help & Manual" for several years now with great results.

I'll have to check out this free one you mention.

-David

Am wondering why not distribute the game documentation in HTML instead of Windows Help? Any advantages with .hlp?

Hlp's are very indexable, they have a built in search option. They are also a standard thats been around since win3.1 so I guess most users know something about them and how to use them. Html is fine but it does result in many files where as hlp's are neatly contained in 1 file, 2 at most.

I have been using Dreamweaver and the evil empire's html help workshop to produce .CHM files. Only drawback is it requires ie v4.01 runtime. :(