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Adding Help to Your Application You can optionally add help to your application, initially starting with a few topics to document the most important application items, then eventually expanding to include additional topics. You can add help to an existing application as easily as you can develop help for a new application. VPLUS/Windows supports general application help and context-sensitive help. The VPLUS/Windows presentation server provides help by interfacing to the Microsoft Windows Help application. You create help by providing one or more help topic files and a help project file. When compiled with the Microsoft help compiler, these files produce a single help file. The help topic file(s) contains all of the help information that is displayed to the application end user. The help project file identifies all the help topic files and the linkages of the help topics to application contexts. The help project file also directs the Microsoft help compiler to create a help file. You use a Rich Format Text (RTF) editor to create a help topic file that includes necessary textual elements, such as footnotes and underlined text. You can use any word processor that supports RTF, such as Microsoft Word for Windows, version 1.0, and Microsoft Word for the PC, version 5.0. Unlike the help topic file, you can create the help project file using any editor.