Create Microsoft HTML Help (.chm) with HelpSmith

Are you a technical writer in your organization?

If you’re one then you must be looking for a good tool to assist in generating help files.

With a good HTML Help (.chm) generator, gone were the days when technical writers need to write technical documentations in Microsoft Word or even Wordpad, then send it to a HTML programmer for conversion purposes.

A good HTML Help generator should have the capabilities of Microsoft Word and at the same time be able to easily export the technical content to various supported formats such as pdf, html or chm

One such software is HelpSmith

With HelpSmith you can do the following:

Create .chm files
HTML Help (chm) files are optimized for reading, as files are heavily indexed. All files are compressed together with LZX compression and Most CHM browsers have the capability to display a table of contents outside of the body text of the help file. With HelpSmith, you can easily create professional HTML Help CHM files based upon the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get principle.

Create .html files
You can easily export your content from your help project into html format. The great thing about this export function is it will also easily generate a table of contents (TOC), an alphabetical index for easy browsing as well as a search capability. Once generated, simply upload all the generated html help files into the web server to be shared within the Intranet or Internet environment.

Create printed manual documents
For some users such as those from the senior management, they would prefer to have a hard copy of the manual. HelpSmith allows you to create an excellent printed manual in just one or two mouse clicks.  A table of contents with page numbers, the topics from your help project, and an alphabetical index can be created on this printer manual. Now, with a simple press of the appropriate button, you can send the generated printed manual to your printer-device.
Some other key major functionalities of HelpSmith includes:
  • Ability to insert graphical and video files into the help file.
  • Inserted graphics and video files becomes part of the help file.
  • The user of HelpSmith need not know anything about HTML/CSS Coding

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