How to Open Help File in Microsoft Document Explorer Instead of in the Default Web Browswer?

[hzy]

When I hit F1 to get help, the help content is opened in the default web browswer (in my case, Internet Explorer). Many features available in the MS document explorer are unavailable in this environment. Plus, I cannot filter the search to Intel Visual Fortran, so when I search for an item, most results are related to Visual Studio.

I am using MS Visual Studio 2010. One of my colleagues uses VS2005, his MS Document Explorer works fine.

I am wondering if anyone had the same experience. Please advise if you know the solution. Thanks.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

This is the way that VS2010 works. You can't change it. Microsoft thought this was a better approach, you may disagree. There is no "Document Explorer" in VS2010.

A bit of web searching suggests that MS made some improvements in VS2010 SP1 - I have not tried that yet. See here.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Indeed, VS2010 SP1 does bring back the separate help viewer, but I see no filtering options.