Try active help. Through Data - Validation..., select tab: Input Message, then add your help file as typed text strings. This builds a box that opens whenever the cell that you created the Input Massage for is selected. If you use the assistant the box will be tied to the assistant, otherwise it opens near the trigger cell, but not obscuring it.
If you need the box tied to other cells it copies with Special Paste Validation. You can build it for a range of cells or just a single cell. I find it works better than a cell comment which you can also use. The draw back with a cell comment is the user must know to select the comment indicator. The Data Validation method is automatic.
The use of real Excel Help files as added to the Help Utility requires a software writter to incode the files. Then the help file needs to be context indexed. Your custom help files will then apear as part of the Help Utility search results for the users entered topic. Later versions of Excel/Office will take HTML files as help files. Working with help files is not easy and is best done with second party software designed to do it.
The building of help files has been covered on this site before, but never fully answered as Microsoft does not include the software with Excel/Office. The other links in search will indicate the names/locatations of the additionally required software, I posted one a wile ago that was free. Good Luck. JSW
This message was edited by Joe Was on 2002-11-06 19:18