## Can't Change Font or Hot Text Color in Macintosh Help File

Article ID: Q124773
Creation Date: 11-JAN-1995
Revision Date: 18-OCT-1995

SUMMARY

You cannot change the font or the hot text color in a Help file on an Apple Macintosh computer. The hot text color displayed in the Help file is hard coded in the Help engine, and cannot be changed (even by using ResEdit). The fonts displayed in the Help file are determined by the creator of the Help file, not by the Help engine. Once a Help file is created, there is no way to change the font. This information is true for all files that use the Macintosh Help engine.

Note that under Microsoft Windows, you can change the hot text color displayed in a help file; however, you cannot change the font used in the Help file.

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