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If you're having trouble reading a Windows 95 help file, select the Options menu and click on Fonts. You'll have a choice of small, medium and large type fonts. If the colors are the culprit, the same menu contains a check item which causes Windows Help to use system colors, except in cases where the programmer hard-coded in a color scheme.
Avoid getting lost while leaping around a help file by using the History Window. Although this feature was available in Windows 3.1 Help, it was seldom used. In Windows 95, select Display History Window under the Options menu. When you select it, you'll be shown a listbox detailing the topics you have looked at in the order in which you visited them. Click on one to return to it.
Access the most commonly used functions in Windows Help by clicking the right mouse button anywhere within a topic. That brings up a shortcut menu that includes Annotate, Copy, Print, "Keep help on top," Font and "Use system colors." If you right-click in a pop-up window, you'll be shown only copy and print.
All the text in Windows 95 Help topics is live. Copying text to the clipboard in Windows Help is now the same as copying it in any virtually any other Windows application. You select the text you want and either select Copy from the Edit menu or use the Control+C keyboard shortcut.
The graphical Table of Contents in Windows 95 Help is controlled by a file with the same name as the help file and a .CNT extension. It is in a plain ASCII text file in the same directory as the help file. You can move things around, change the nesting and so on, by editing the .CNT file. Before you make any changes, however, back up the original file first.
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