Jumping to a specific topic externally

Is there a way to open up a specific help topic from outside
of the help file within an email? Say I click the link in the email
and it opens the help project, and then automatically jumps to a
specific topic in the help project. Does this involve bookmarks in
the project?

G'nite dude.
Thanks a ton for all of the responses. I know now how to get
the right URL to jump to the topic.
I'm still sleuthing the other half of this, though. Once I
get the right URL, I can copy and paste it into the broswer address
bar and it will go to the correct topic. Now I need to be able to
email this link and have someone else open it to a specific topic.
(Sure I could tell em to copy and paste the link from the email
into the browser... now that's just too easy).
Putting it as a link in Outlook, though, is still giving me a
headache and it's only bringing up the start page when the broswer
window comes up. The #Topic22.htm section of my link gets chopped
off.
Must be something to do with the email settings, because
Outlook is checking mail attachments, and it's telling me:
You should only open attachments from a trustworthy source.
Attachment: StartPage.htm from X:\Stuff Folder\Help Project
Would you like to open the file or save it blabbity blah...
This is how our area is set up for security, and it appears
that Outlook's only seeing the stuff
before the # sign.

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