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Most programmers want their applications to look like commercial software, so they want to add their ownhelp files. How do you open the contents of a Windows help file in your application? Simply paste in thiscode, which uses Win32 API function:

 ' ---- DeclaresConst HELP_CONTENTS = &H3&' Display contentsDeclare Function WinHelp Lib "user32" _        Alias "WinHelpA" _        (ByVal hwnd As Long, _        ByVal lpHelpFile As String, _        ByVal wCommand As Long, _        ByVal dwData As Long) As Long' --- CodeSub OpenHelpFile(HelpFileName As String)        ' HelpFileName is the path of the         ' help file.        WinHelp hwnd, HelpFileName, _                HELP_CONTENTS, 0End Sub

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