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How can I create help files in labview
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Paulo;

You can and at the same time you cannot. With LabVIEW, you can create the necessary files to create a help file, but you can't create the help file. In order to create your help file, you need a WinHelp compiler.

Also, what LabVIEW allows you to do is to create a file that correspond to the documentation of you VI, so you need to fully document you VIs first.

To document you VI, go to File -> VI Properties and select "Documentation" from the menu. You can access the VI Properties also by Right-clicking the VI icon in the top-right corner of the Window. To document the controls and indicators in your VI, Right-click the control or indicator and select "Description and Tip...".

To create the documentation files, go to File -> Print.
At some point, you will have the option to select a Destination. Select "RTF File" to generate the files a WinHelp compiler understand.

As you will see too, you can also create html files for your VIs. It can be a good alternative for WinHelp files.

There are some nice Help editors outhere. I use HelpScribble. You can see a very simple help file I created with HelpScribble in my small project VI Background Check.

Regards;
Enrique
www.vartortech.com
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  You don't have to complete the VI's documentation and you can have different help text from the VI's documentation text, for LabVIEW 8.2. If you have a html file, you can link to that. This link will show up in the Context Help window. You don't even need the Help compiler if you use html files. Edit the files with MS Word, and create hyper links to the other html files.
 
  Goto VI properties>>Documentation, then select Browse for the path of the help file.
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