The Microsoft HTML Help compiler is available free of charge. You need it to turn HTML pages into a compiled help (.chm) format. The package includes a help file with detailed documentation of the entire HTML Help system.

Microsoft HTML Help Workshop (compiler for .CHM files)

HTML Help Workshop download

Installer for MS HTML Help Workshop ("htmlhelp.exe").

Note:
After installing HTML Help Workshop you will see a message that you "already have a newer version of HTML Help". Please ignore it! This message refers to the run-time components for displaying HTML Help on Windows, and on current computers the existing runtimes are always newer than those in the HTML Help Workshop package.

 

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