Welcome to “HelpNDoc Insights and Articles”, your dedicated hub for all things related to HelpNDoc, presented in thoughtful, in-depth articles. Here, we explore the breadth and depth of the software, shedding light on its features, offering tips and tricks, and providing insights on how to best leverage HelpNDoc to create compelling and comprehensive documentation. Our articles range from beginner’s guides and how-tos to expert advice and deep dives into advanced features. For those who prefer a more hands-on learning experience, we have a series of step-by-step guides available both as easy-to-follow text and engaging video content. Whether you’re a first-time user or an experienced documentation specialist, our goal is to empower you with knowledge and inspire you to make the most of HelpNDoc. Dive in to discover, learn, and enhance your understanding of this powerful tool.
The documentation landscape is constantly evolving, and HelpNDoc has emerged as a leading help authoring tool that’s changing the way we create, maintain, and share information. With its ability to streamline the documentation process, improve content quality, and integrate with advanced technologies, HelpNDoc is redefining the industry’s future. Let’s explore how HelpNDoc is shaping the future of documentation.
Discover the transformative power of HelpNDoc, an innovative help-authoring tool designed to enhance the teaching experience and empower students. This article delves into the key features and benefits of HelpNDoc, from its user-friendly interface to its multimedia content creation capabilities. Learn how to create engaging, interactive content that strengthens teacher-student connections and fosters a comprehensive learning environment. Unlock the potential of HelpNDoc to revolutionize your educational content and support your students' success.
PHP is a powerful server-side scripting language that has been an essential tool for web development for decades. With its ability to dynamically generate content, enhance user experience, handle security restrictions, increase interactivity or collect user data, it is a great addition to online user documentation. Thanks to the HelpNDoc help authoring tool's powerful and versatile template system, these benefits are now easily achievable: let's explore how incorporating PHP into online user documentation can help to improve the user experience and provide better engagement and feedback. Whether you're a web developer, a technical writer, or someone looking to enhance their online documentation, this post will provide valuable insights and tips on how to use HelpNDoc to make the most of PHP in your online documentation.
CHM help files are used to provide online help and documentation for software applications, plugins or drivers, and are commonly distributed with Windows installers. Third-party programs like HelpNDoc are specialized help authoring software tools that can make it easier and faster to create a CHM help file. Using a third-party program to create a CHM help file can provide several benefits compared to using the built-in HTML Help Workshop program provided by Microsoft, as they offer a user-friendly graphical interface, powerful features, time-saving tools, and flexibility that can make it easier and more efficient to create a professional-looking CHM help file. In this article, we will discuss these benefits in more detail and provide an overview of the steps for creating a CHM help file using a help authoring tool. Whether you are new to creating help files or an experienced technical writer, these programs can provide valuable tools and resources to help you create high-quality help content for your users.
When it comes to creating high-quality help files, user manuals, documentation websites, or eBooks, Microsoft Word is not the best tool for the job. In fact, it can be a real pain to use and the results are often far from satisfactory: managing multiple interconnected documents with Microsoft Word is very hard, error-prone, and time-consuming. A Help Authoring Tool (HAT), such as HelpNDoc, is much simpler, faster, and therefore cheaper to use. Plus, it can generate multiple output formats out of a single source.
Managing media assets such as pictures throughout help files, documentation projects or ebooks can be a daunting task and this is why the HelpNDoc help authoring tool implements a centralized library: media assets are managed from the project's library, and changes are automatically applied to every instances throughout the project. But some settings (such as dimensions, positions, alterative texts...) can be customized for each instance, making them hard to update for frequently used assets. Thankfully, HelpNDoc includes a fantastic timesaving feature: it is able to instantly apply updated picture properties to every instances throughout the project. Let's see how this can greatly simplify and speed up the work of technical writers.
Microsoft Word, and similar word processing software such as LibreOffice, are great to write and format documents meant to be printed, but not so good at producing HTML websites from those documents: they generate suboptimal single-page HTML / CSS code which is not optimized for different screen sizes and devices such as smartphones. By leveraging the import and export capabilities of a help authoring tool such as HelpNDoc (which is free for personal use), it is extremely easy to convert a Word document to a fully functional multi-page and responsive HTML 5 website. Let’s dive in...
Even though the Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) could be considered as a legacy document format, it is supported by enough software and operating systems to be considered as highly portable and a great choice for cross-platform document exchange. Thanks to the HelpNDoc help authoring tool, you can produce your documentation projects not only as Microsoft Word DocX documents, but also as fully valid RTF documents, giving you a great choice of document format generation options. Let's see how easy it is to produce RTF documents using HelpNDoc.
One of the most important help file format produced by the HelpNDoc help authoring tool is the HTML documentation format: the fully functional documentation web-sites can be hosted on any web server for quick access to self-service documentation, thus simplifying customer accessibility and the work of the support team. Support agents frequently need to share context-sensitive URLs to customers to explain specific tasks but those are often too long and hard to remember and type. Fortunately, every topics created in HelpNDoc can have an unlimited number of URL aliases: let's see how they can be defined in HelpNDoc's user interface.
Technical writers are spending a lot of time making sure that the content they are writing is relevant, clear, and concise so they should not have to waste time operating their favorite help authoring software when they need to perform common tasks such as creating hyperlinks. Fortunately, the HelpNDoc help authoring tool provides multiple ways to speed up hyperlink creation, thus helping technical writers spend their time where it matters the most: writing great content.
