Best way to present help?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

We are trying to come up with a better way to present our help info in
our AddIn. So...

1) We are creating help in 4 forms - written, video, interactive
video, and computer based training. So we need to show that set of
content as being available where the user will then select one and we
display it. What's the suggested way to do this? I remember the little
paper clip helper in Office was universally detested so I don't want
to go that route.

2) When we display the content, it's html. Is launching a browser the
best way to display that or is there a better way to do it? When
Office help comes up it seems to be some kind of Office window that
contains IE.

thanks - dave


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[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

I think,

1.We can put the help entry in one of the groups of your AddIn's tab. That
will be easy to implement for you, and easy to find by your end user.

2.As far as I know the Office Helper Viewer cannot be customize. So I think
have to use an browser to display it directly. We can just call
Process.Start() to show the target html files.

Best regards,
Ji Zhou
Microsoft Online Community Support