Wine does not support the use of compiled HTML help files such as that used by Agent. The file discussed here is Agent.chm. (This assumes that you've already installed the Gnochm viewer.)
One work-around is to install a CHM file viewer, copy your agent.chm file to somewhere you can keep track of it, and then use the viewer to navigate to it and read the help file much as you would in Agent. It's not perfect, nor as handy, but you can toggle back and forth between the help file viewer and Agent while you are trying to figure out something you need to do.
If you use Ubuntu, you will have it easy. Use your Synaptics to install GNOCHM, a CHM file viewer for Gnome. It will show up in the Windows Applications menu in the same place as Agent (titled Agent Help). It does not need to be launched from within a terminal window. There are others available, including some for the KDE desktop environment. Read the descriptions and see which one you want to use. I'm happy with GNOCHM myself, so that's what I'll stick with. I placed the chm file in my Documents folder on my /home partition under my name folder (/home/donald/Documents in my case).
Maybe sometime in the future Crossover Office and/or the Wine developers will support compiled HTML help files. In the meantime, this should work well enough, especially if you don't use help all that often.
You can go a step further if you wish and associate the agent.chm file with your CHM file viewer. It won't allow you to launch it from inside Agent, but it will allow you to launch it from the Crossover menu by following it across and clicking on Agent Help.
This is how to do it in Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop. Find your agent.chm file, right click on it, choose properties. Click the little wrench symbol next to "HTML Help Document" and then you'll see an edit file type/application box. Under application preference order, click ADD then click next to the place where you could enter a filename on the "open folder" icon. Find your file viewer that you installed. If you used Synaptics and installed GNOCHM or XCHM (either one should work for this), it will be in /usr/bin/ and then double click on that file then "OK" your way out of all of the boxes until you are out of the file association boxes altogether. Now, when you click on Agent Help, you will open the help file directly. This takes a bit more work but it's easier once this file association has been set up.
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