Help+Manual 10

EC Software·ECSoftware.Help+Manual.10

Windows help and documentation tool

Help+Manual is a single-source help authoring and content management system for both single and multi-author editing. Working with Help+Manual is as easy as writing text with a word processor. Help+Manual scales from small to really large projects with thousands of pages and creates Windows help files, Webhelp and manuals in print and PDF format. Try yourself and download a trial of Help+Manual! Writing help has never been easier. Help+Manuals working environment gives you all the formatting and editing features of a modern word processor, including dynamic styles and complex tables. The software creates all classic help file and documentation formats: * Microsoft HTML Help (.chm) * Visual Studio Help * Webhelp for integration into your website * User manuals in Adobe PDF format * Apple iPad e-books Features: * Multiple output from one single source * All outputs are highly customizeable * PDF manuals with active hyperlinks * Built-in multi-user authoring capabilities * Tools includes: reports, translation assistants, image and screen shot tools Single source, Multiple output Single source is much more than just outputting exactly the same information to different formats. Help+Manual supports conditional and customized output features that enable you to include variant content versions for different output formats and purposes - all in the same project, no post-processing is required. Help+Manual handles all the complexities of help formatting and generation for you, letting you concentrate on the work of writing. But there is also extensive support for power users and experienced help authors. You can get under the hood and insert your own HTML code, change the code the program uses to generate your projects, manipulate topic and project templates and more. Help+Manual gives you the best of both worlds. Download the fully functional evaluation version to try Help+Manual for 30 days!

winget install --id ECSoftware.Help+Manual.10 --exact --source winget

Latest 10.1.0·January 9, 2026

Release Notes

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 10.1.0! This update is particularly interesting if you want to use the ChatGPT plugin with custom LLMs. ChatGPT Plugin We fixed a proxy bug with the ChatGPT plugin: the plugin did not use the proxy defined for Help+Manual in general. With this update, ChatGPT uses the global proxy by default and lets you set custom proxy settings in the plugin directly.

Help+Manual 10.1.0 Miscellaneous Changes

  • Paste picture from clipboard: the save dialog that lets you specify the file name for the picture now uses the extended version, so you can directly add an image style, caption, zoom, etc.
  • Insert Variable: the dialog now features a recently used list with the last 7 variables inserted, making variables easier to insert
  • eViewer 5.6 included
  • SnipSVG 2.1 included
  • PDF snippets in PDF export: when a “raw PDF snippet” was the very first item in a topic, the snippet was not printed.
  • Word/DOCX export: Cyrillic characters in style names were not exported correctly on a Russian Windows.
  • Webhelp Export on Chinese Windows versions: UTF8-BOM for topic pages was wrong encoded. All updates are available from our download page.

Installer types: inno, msi

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Details

Homepage
https://www.helpandmanual.com/downloads.html
License
Proprietary
Publisher
EC Software
Support
https://www.helpandmanual.com/support_help.html
Privacy Policy
https://www.helpandmanual.com/company_privacy.html
Copyright
© 1997-2026 EC Software GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Older versions (4)

10.0.3
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10.0.2
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10.0.1
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10.0.0
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