The applications for developing online help are expensive! Among the top application for developing online help is RoboHelp. However, RoboHelp is expensive enough to discourage the casual user.

For aspiring technical writers, trying HelpNDoc is beneficial. HelpNDoc is now widely used and becoming popular. Aside from it is easy to use, its free!

We have produced excellent online help using the free version of HelpNDoc.

Here's the publisher's description of HelpNDoc:

HelpNDoc is an easy to use yet powerful and intuitive tool to create html help files.

HelpNDoc provides a clear and efficient interface to build the most amazing html help files without worrying about the inner working of help file generation. You just have to enter your text in the built-in word processor and hit the "Compile" button to obtain a fully functional help file which looks exactly as you designed it.

Forget about bloated user interfaces and incomprehensible tools. HelpNDoc has been engineered to provide the most advanced functionalities in their simplest form: creating html help files is usually a painful process but thanks to HelpNDoc you may surprise yourself enjoying it!

You know how to use windows explorer and your favorite word processor? Then you already know how to use HelpNDoc: it's that easy! Add to that many powerful features such as live spell checking in a fully WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment and you'll begin to imagine how fast and easy it will be for you to create your next help file and how professional it will look like.

It's time to stop paying for overpriced and useless tools!

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Download free version
You can download HelpNDoc free for personal use. You will be able to use the full version of HelpNDoc for as long as you want. The only restriction is that you can't use HelpNDoc or its generated files for profit. Have a look at the included license for more information.

System Requirements
Windows 95 or higher
HTML Help Viewer (only required for Windows 95)
HTML Help Workshop (required on all systems)
Pentium class processor (133 MHz or higher)
32MB of memory or greater
10MB Hard disk space