Writing first rate help files doesn't have to be hard!

You have written a terrific Windows program, so why let yourself fall flat with a poorly designed help file?

Help & Manual is a stand-alone, WYSIWYG help authoring tool that lets you create all types of Standard Windows Help (HTML HELP, Classic Winhelp, soon MS Help 2.0), Browser based help, PDF Documents and printed manuals from a single source.

With its WYSIWYG approach to creating help files and printed manuals, what you see at design time is what you get at run time.

The word-processor-style interface lets you use toolbars and right-click menus to easily create topics and links, enter text and add images. Designing a table of contents, a keyword index or context sensitive help is not an extra task but fully integrated. You create hyperlinks to other topics with a simple drag and drop and test them in design mode.

Help & Manual contains all of the tools needed to create professional hypertext documentation and printed manuals, unlike limited help-authoring tools that force developers to learn obscure rich text file (RTF) tags, or to reformat their help file data to create printed manuals.

Who can use Help & Manual?

Why is Help & Manual different from other tools?

HTML HELP with many options to customize the output. You can easily apply your own corporate layout to your help files.

Winhelp Classic Winhelp (.HLP) files - even help files for Windows 3.1 - are supported as well. You can create all help formats from the same single source.

HTLML Browser based help - platform and browser independent HTML pages, with dynamic table of contents and Javascript navigation.

Adobe PDFHelp & Manual creates PDF files natively. The user manual in PDF format on the download page was of course created with Help & Manual

MMHELP Electronic books in Windows 32 bit executable format. No installation, no browser, no DLLs, no problems. This e-book format is great for CD rom presentations. Sample e-book (exesample.exe, 890 kb)

MS WORD Microsoft Word export in RTF format is also supported.But the built-in print engine is so good that you rather prefer to print the user manual directly.

Creating help files is as easy as writing a letter

The WYSIWYG interface leaves out all the cryptic references for index pages, hyperlinks, images and text formats like some other help authoring tools! It simply displays it at design time the way it will look at run time. Everything you need is right there at your finger tips.

• Don't worry about RTF documents, footnotes and commands in brackets
• Insert linked or embedded images with one mouseclick
• Use Bitmaps, Metafiles or Segmented Hyper Graphics
• Insert links to other topics with drag & drop
• Add help macros, videos and audio files
• Jump to the middle of a topic and jump to a specific paragraph
• Table of contents, help topics, keywords and context sensitive help are not separate tasks but fully integrated into the main window
• Select topics to appear in the help file or the manual only - or in both
• Import existing help projects to start quickly
• With Help & Manual's ability to merge multiple help files and to convert cross-references among separate parts into intra-file links, different people can work on different parts of the help file development.
• Print manuals directly - the integrated editor lets you customize the layout of your paper manual
• Define fonts and numbering styles for all heading levels
• The print preview gives you a first impression how it will look
• Help & Manual automatically creates a table of contents and a keyword index for your manual
• Ship your user manual electronically in rich text format - in addition to the printed manual