Welcome to “HelpNDoc Updates & Highlights”, your one-stop source for the latest news, updates, and feature enhancements from the world of HelpNDoc. In our fast-paced digital world, HelpNDoc continually evolves to offer advanced, user-friendly, and efficient documentation solutions. This space is dedicated to bringing you the most recent developments straight from the HelpNDoc team. From software improvements to new functionality introductions, and insider tips to help you leverage these updates to their full potential, our aim is to keep you informed and adept in this changing landscape. For those who wish to delve deeper into each update, you can review a comprehensive, version-specific changelog. Stay tuned to learn, grow, and make the most of your HelpNDoc experience.

New equation library item with built-in mathematical expression editor, project-wide character analyzer, and more in HelpNDoc 8.5

New equation library item with built-in mathematical expression editor, project-wide character analyzer, and more in HelpNDoc 8.5
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HelpNDoc, the popular help authoring software, has just released its latest version, HelpNDoc 8.5, packed with several new features and improvements to help authors create even better documentation. Among the new additions are an Equation library item that allows mathematical expressions to be defined and reused throughout a project, a project analyzer that lists individual characters and their number of occurrences throughout the project, and an updated build actions panel that saves and restores properties group positions and column widths. The new version also includes improvements to the scripting engine, documentation generation, and user interface. Let's take a closer look at some of the most notable updates in HelpNDoc 8.5 but first if you haven't used HelpNDoc before or haven't updated yet, we encourage you to download the free personal edition to try out the software and experience these new features for yourself.

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Streamline Your Documentation Generation Workflow with the New HTTP Request Build Action in HelpNDoc 8.4

Streamline Your Documentation Generation Workflow with the New HTTP Request Build Action in HelpNDoc 8.4
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Help authors, technical writers, and documentation specialists, we have some exciting news for you! The latest release of HelpNDoc, the powerful and user-friendly help authoring tool, introduces several new features and bug fixes that will improve your documentation workflow and enhance your overall experience with the software. Whether you are looking to perform HTTP requests before or after the generation process, manage keywords more efficiently, or benefit from a more intuitive user interface, HelpNDoc 8.4 has something for everyone. In this article, we will highlight the most significant new features and improvements in this release and show you how they can help you create better documentation, faster and more efficiently.

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Locate and update hyperlinks in bulk, filtered keywords and improved documentation generation speed in HelpNDoc 8.3

Locate and update hyperlinks in bulk, filtered keywords and improved documentation generation speed in HelpNDoc 8.3
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 8.3, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as the ability to update or delete multiple hyperlinks at once from the project analyzer, an enhanced “find and replace” dialog with hyperlink searching capabilities, the ability to filter keywords to only display the ones associated with the current topic, a greatly improved documentation generation speed and much more… Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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HelpNDoc 8.2: New pre-build actions, Run external programs, Improved auto-completion and more

HelpNDoc 8.2: New pre-build actions, Run external programs, Improved auto-completion and more
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 8.2, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as pre-build actions, which are run before the documentation generation process; a new build action to run external programs; a redesigned auto-completion dialog to quickly create links to topics and anchors or insert library items; improved HTML generation with better SEO and much more…

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Run post-build actions when the documentation is generated and create topics from a template in HelpNDoc 8.1

Run post-build actions when the documentation is generated and create topics from a template in HelpNDoc 8.1
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 8.1, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as the ability to define post-build actions which are run after the documentation generation process for each build; the ability to select a snippet as the default topics' content; an improved topic editor with the ability to display smaller library items; and much more... Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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Encrypt and sign Word and PDF documents, use SVG images, and override styles for each documentation output in HelpNDoc 8.0

Encrypt and sign Word and PDF documents, use SVG images, and override styles for each documentation output in HelpNDoc 8.0
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We are glad to announce the new major version of the popular HelpNDoc help authoring tool, which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes a ton of new features and enhancements, such as a completely revised architecture as HelpNDoc is now a 64-bit application for improved speed and memory usage; It can now sign, encrypt and password-protect both Word and PDF documents; It supports scalable SVG graphic images in all documentation formats; It allows for styles to be overridden for each documentation output; and much, much more…

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Mass update pictures’ properties, new font selector with search capabilities and UI refinements in HelpNDoc 7.9

Mass update pictures' properties, new font selector with search capabilities and UI refinements in HelpNDoc 7.9
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 7.9, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as the ability to update every pictures with their default settings; A new font selector with recently used fonts, font preview and search support; An improved Word importer; A new API method to list library items used in a specific editor; and much more… Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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Use snippets as topic templates, reuse topic content, automate topic writing and more in HelpNDoc 7.8

Use snippets as topic templates, reuse topic content, automate topic writing and more in HelpNDoc 7.8
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 7.8, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as the ability to insert documents and snippets' content into topics and to quickly convert topic content to snippets, new editor and user interface APIs to automate topic creation and modification, improved HTML and document importers and much more... Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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Find and replace in script editor, single letter words support in HTML search engine, and more in HelpNDoc 7.7

Find and replace in script editor, single letter words support in HTML search engine, and more in HelpNDoc 7.7
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 7.7, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as a greatly improved script editor with find / replace capabilities and multiple new customizable options, the ability to index single letter words in the HTML search engine, new command line options to open a project at a specific topic, official Windows 11 support and much more... Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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Analyze conditional content throughout your documentation using the fully redesigned project analyzer in HelpNDoc 7.6

Analyze conditional content throughout your documentation using the fully redesigned project analyzer in HelpNDoc 7.6
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 7.6, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as a brand new analyzer which can list conditional content throughout the project, a completely redesigned project analyzer with faster navigation and enhanced accessibility, an improved HTML importer which can download remote images, an enhanced Word importer, better documentation generation, and much more. Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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