Help & Manual for Windows

User Reviews

• Buyer Beware...

  scotcro2/9/2013

  Pros

  Unified Documentation development. Good Value

  Cons

  Does not work well in a team environment.

  Summary

  User Note: Although Help & Manual has a good price point for its functionality, remember you do get what you pay for. After several years of using H&M, I would not advise anyone to purchase it unless they are going to use it as a single editor and not in a team environment. The development and support team refuse to keep the products souce control integration up to date, and have chosen to abandon the now obsolete Visual Source Save integration, refusing to give any indication of mitigating this major flaw and enable it for use with Team Foundation Server, other than its is on our list. They have, instead chosen to spend effort on the open source SVN system wich is clunky, very difficult to use and does not integrate well with their product.

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• Perfect to maintain from one source: HTML, HELP files and PDF

  zmilenkovski3/25/2006

  Pros

  I felt more comfortable working with H&M than in Microsoft products. I did create some of the web page content with it, all the HELP files for all the modules and also the pdf manuals. I also must mention the support: Once I had to print a 100 pages document created with H&M and had some problems with the printing of the pdf file. In an hour we have exchanged few e-mails with the H&M support so I had the document on time for the meeting.

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• no css support

  plfs2/9/2006

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  Cons

  The one thing I noticed right off the bat is that it didn't use my css sheets. It has it's own way of doing so, but I didn't want to spend the time to recreate my style sheets. The end result was unformatted text, unacceptable.

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• Very nice, but expensive.

  jay054/22/2005

  Pros

  This application lets you create very professional help files, and is pretty easy to use.

  Cons

  The trial is great, but it's so expensive to buy the full version!

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• 1/30/2004

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