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Using CVI to develop an instrument driver, how do you edit introduction field generated in Windows help

I'm updating documentation for my IVI Instrument Driver. I'm using CVI tools to generate Windows Help from Function Panel. I can't find the way the edit the field coming first (Introduction, Assumptions, Error Codes).
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There are a couple of ways to change the text that CVI enters for these fields.
A quick and dirty way is just to change the text that CVI enters into all help files by modifying the cvimsgs.txt (the messages are around line 5500 for CVI 7.0). You will have to restart CVI for the changes to take effect. Note that doing this will change all help files generated by CVI so you should probably back up the file beforehand.
A much cleaner solution is to check the "Generate Help Source" option when creating the help file. This will create a .rtf file with the help text and a .hpj file which you can use to rebuild the help using Microsoft Help Workshop (you can download Microsoft Help Workshop from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/html
help/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp if you don't already have it). Just modify the text in the .rtf file (be careful not to use an editor which will mess up the tags in it), then open the .hpj file and compile it.
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