Help with Help

When I click on "Help" on the menu bar, and follow that up by clicking
on 
"Help Topics" I get the following message:
    "Cannot find the qp12en.hlp file.  Do you want to try to find this file

yourself?"
And I then browse to my help file (which is on the e: drive, not the 
default, because that is where I have room).

My question is, I read in a knowledge base article that Quattro Pro was 
supposed to remember where my Help file was after this, but it does not.  Do 
I need to change something in the registry?

Thank you,
Kent Rose

(First time newsgroup user, user of Wordperfect since 1984.) 

Try putting it in, C:\Program Files\WordPerfect Office 12\Shared\Help.

Kent:
> My question is, I read in a knowledge base article that Quattro Pro was 
> supposed to remember where my Help file was after this, but it does not. 
Do 
> I need to change something in the registry?

Try:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\COREL\QuattroPro\12\Location of Help Files\EN\

However: it seems likely that QP "remembers" the location using the
same key.
So there may be a permissions issue here.

My location (from that key) is:

"Help File"="E:\\Program Files\\WordPerfect Office
12\\Shared\\Help\\QP12EN.HLP>topics"

and I have only ever seen that message once or twice.
ISTR it popped up more often under Win98SE.
-- 
Good wishes!
Roy Lewis
C_Tech volunteer
(UK)

Kent S. Rose wrote:
> When I click on "Help" on the menu bar, and follow that up by
clicking on 
> "Help Topics" I get the following message:
>     "Cannot find the qp12en.hlp file.  Do you want to try to find this
file 
> yourself?"
> And I then browse to my help file (which is on the e: drive, not the 
> default, because that is where I have room).
> 
> My question is, I read in a knowledge base article that Quattro Pro was 
> supposed to remember where my Help file was after this, but it does not. 
Do 
> I need to change something in the registry?
> 
> Thank you,
> Kent Rose
> 
> (First time newsgroup user, user of Wordperfect since 1984.) 

Are you, perchance, using Vista?  I seem to recall that Vista needs a 
'patch' to utilize 'old' help files.  The 'patch' is available from MS. 
  beware word wrap:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6EBCFAD9-D3F5-4365-8070
-334CD175D4BB