Oops, additional info. I'm currently working on Windows 98, but any solution would need to work on Windows NT and Windows 2000 as well. Thanks for any info Jeff

MSDN contains a free version of MS WordPad with source as an example program. It should be on your MSDN CD or you can probably download it from www.msdn.microsoft.com.

Thanks Blake, I have no idea why I didn't think of looking at all the members of HELPINFO to find the iCtrlId item. That is exactly what I need, and it works for F1 help as well, so I can trash my previous work around. Just in case anyone is interested, Brad Robinson replied to my post in the CodeGuru Visual C++ forum with a different solution, he suggested grabbing the Window Handle member of HELPINFO (hItemHandle) and then translating that to a Control ID. That works as well. Thanks for the assist Jeff