# Help Files?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-files/559534
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 5, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-files/559534 "2010-11-05T01:51:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-files/559534/1 "2010-11-05T01:51:40Z")
Let’s say I want to write something that would begin with a heading. By clicking on that heading, one of more sub-headings would open; by clicking on one of those sub-headings, one or more sub-sub headings would open, appropriately tabbed.
I would prefer to organize this “something” like a help file is organized and not like a conventional table of contents-----is this feasible? Is free software available to help me do this? I’m not expressing this very well because I’m not entirely sure how to express it.
Cooking Cats: (click on this)
```
Cooking Adult Cats: (opens as a result of clicking on "Cooking Cats")
Cooking Kittens: (Opens as a result of clicking on "Cooking Cats")
"How to French Fry Kittens" (Opens as a result of clicking on "Cooking Kittens"
```
But with each click, the previous heading remains visible; I’m not jumping from one heading to another; I want it to appear as a progression.
I must be insane.
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-files/559534/2 "2010-11-05T02:07:22Z")
There are lots of tools out there you can use to write Windows Help files that work just like the help files you see in most Windows applications. I think what you describe can be done.
Try to Google “writing windows help files”.