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Work Write, Inc. and KeyWorks Software Release KeyTools HTML Help Utilities

PHILADELPHIA, PA, November 8, 1998 - Work Write, Inc. (Feasterville, Pennsylvania) and KeyWorks Software (Redmond, Washington) today announced KeyTools, a set of utilities for managing the WinHelp and HTML Help systems on your computer, and for optimizing those help systems for better performance. The utilities provided by KeyTools include:

• Decompiler: Extracts the source files from a compiled HTML Help (.chm) or compiled Internet Explorer (.its) file. Unlike the HTML Help decompiler, the KeyTools decompiler also recreates the project file (.hhp file).
• Recompiler: Recompiles one or more .chm or .its files to further reduce its size.
• HTML Help and WinHelp Registry: Lists all HTML Help and WinHelp files that have been registered on your computer system. You can add to or remove from the list, or modify the name or location of the entry.
• Find HTML Help and WinHelp Components: Locates all HTML Help and WinHelp development components on your computer system so that you can check versions and, if necessary, remove duplicates.
• Find HTML Help and WinHelp Files: Locates all HTML Help and WinHelp files on your computer system, so that you can review or delete them.
• Examine CHM file: Opens a special viewer, from which you can examine a summary and the file contents of a .chm file without decompiling it.

KeyTools is available free of charge, except for the download, from KeyWorks website (http://www.keyworks.net).

KeyHelp is one of the technologies resulting from the parternship of Cheryl Lockett Zubak and Ralph Walden. Ralph Walden is best known as Microsoft's lead developer for WinHelp and HTML Help. He began working on online help systems for Microsoft in 1987 with the creation of QuickHelp. In 1992, he took over the development of WinHelp, producing WinHelp 4.0 and Help Workshop. In 1996, he began creating the largest team Microsoft has ever put on a help project, and was the system architect for HTML Help. He left Microsoft in 1997, and is now principal of KeyWorks Software (http://www.keyworks.net).

Upon leaving Microsoft, Ralph teamed up with Cheryl Lockett Zubak, president of Work Write, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in the development of user assistance for the Windows and Web platforms. An accomplished popular speaker on hypermedia design and development, Cheryl is coauthor of Designing Windows 95 Help and a forthcoming book about HTML-based help design. In February 1999, Cheryl was named "Best Speaker or Instructor" and "All Time, All Around Help Guru" at the Help Authors Choice Awards at the WinWriters Online Help Conference in Seattle, Washington. Because of her industry standing and expertise with HTML Help, Microsoft named Cheryl a charter member of the Microsoft HTML Help MVP proram. Cheryl is also a certified trainer for RoboHelp Office and ForeHelp.

HTML Help is the Microsoft development environment for HTML-based help and online reference information. Currently in version 1.2, HTML Help has replaced WinHelp as the standard help facility for Microsoft products. It is shipping with a variety of Microsoft applications, including Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher, Windows 98, and Money 99. Windows 2000 will also ship with HTML Help systems.

For further details, contact Cheryl Lockett Zubak at Work Write, Inc., 128 South Eastview Avenue, Feasterville, PA 19053 USA. Phone: +1 215.357.3453 Fax: +1 215.357.0695 Email: cheri@workwrite.com Website: http://www.workwrite.com

Last updated, November 1998

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