Recreating help pages from a .chm file

Hello,
I have a situation where numerous help pages have been
removed from a project. I think this happened when we had some
problems witha network drive & checking files from this
location into a source control tool. It has gone unnoticed until
now. The .chm file is intact & I'm wondering if there is a way
of recreating my project from the .chm file?
any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Maxine

Sorry, it's in my signature but that got missed from the post above.
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> I'm about to create the documentation for a large LabVIEW
> automation project. I would also like to use this
> documentation as the content for my help-file used by the
> LabVIEW program (a *.chm or a *.hlp-file) via the
> Control Online Help.VI.
>
> The question is, what is the most optimal way to create this document,
> without having to do the job almost twice ?
>
> Normally I would create the documentation as a Word-document.
> But as far as I see, the help-file system has to be created by the
> MS HTML Help Workshop program, and that uses a large collection
> of html-files to compile into the CHM file. And the html-files that
> can be exported from Word aren't optimal, are they, with
> a lot of extra code etc...
>
> Somebody have obviously looked at this problem before me.
>
> What are the tips, tricks and suggestions around ?
>
> Martin
>
>

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