Help Author Kit Incompatible With Microsoft Word 97 (170689)

SYMPTOMS

Microsoft Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit, ISBN 1-55615-892-0, contains a procedure which produces the following error when the steps on pages 18 through 29 are completed:

   Processing TOPICS\myhelp.rtf
         HC4002: Warning:
      The RTF file TOPICS\myhelp.rtf is corrupted at offset 286.
         HC4005: Warning:
      The .\myhelp.hlp help file has not been created.

MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft Word 97 produces a rich text file that is incompatible with Microsoft Help Compiler 4.0. For more information on this problem, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

164012 Error Compiling Word 97 RTF in Help Compiler, Help WorkShop.

Microsoft is aware of this problem and has produced a new version of the Microsoft Help Compiler that will work correctly with Microsoft Word 97 files. Version 4.03 of the Help Compiler is now available for free download from Microsoft. Future reprints and editions of the Microsoft Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit will include the corrected compiler.

RESOLUTION

The self-extracting archive file, Hcwsetup.exe, contains the Microsoft Help Workshop version 4.03 and instructions for installing this program.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

HCWSETUP.EXE

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

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