Create online help manual with Dr.Explain. It's easy, fast & cost-effective.

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  Create on-line manuals

  Make web help from scratch in minutes
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  Web help from documents

  Convert documents into on-line help
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  On-line manual + help files

  One source for help file & web manual

• The shortest learning curve ever!

  Create your first professional on-line manual in two minutes. Easily create and update help topics in WYSIWYG editor with lots of functions.
  
  Automatically capture and annotate screenshots of your application or web system to create screencasts or step-by-step manuals.
  
  Add full text search function into your online manual without programming, scripting, or database engine on web server.

• Make on-line help files from various documents!

  Import existing HLP, CHM, TXT, XML, HTML, or MS Word documents formats and create a single on-line manual.
  
  Automatically make table of contents, keyword indexes, and navigational menu.
  
  Embed online help into your product web site design by customizing headers, footers and sidebars and adding your logos, menus, copyrights, and other corporate style elements.

• One tool for your entire help documentation!

  Create standalone CHM help files, printable PDF, and MS Word documents from the same project source and in the same tool!
  
  Easily change the appearance of help pages with by applying various preset templates.
  
  Deliver professional help documentation to your customers in various formats and for different platforms.

Creating online help manual is an important part of your software or system development. Dr.Explain minimizes tedious documentation writing work as it automates the most time consuming and boring task.
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Online help manual created with Dr.Explain tool

Why to create online help?

Online help usually consists of many HTML pages with common table of contents, navigation menus, keyword index, and search functions. Building online help is strongly recommended for cross-platform projects, web systems, and software that are frequently updated.

Keeping your software help online offers numerous benefits:

• Decrease the size of your installation package by excluding standalone help files and uploading software documentation onto your web server.
• Update your online help easily as there is no need to resend an updated help file to all users. Just upload a new version of your manual to your website.
• Easily refer users to specific topics of your online help. Just provide a URL of a certain help topic by e-mail or in chat application.
• No need to create help files in different formats for various operating systems and platforms. Your online help will be accessible in any web browser on any OS.

Your online manual is an important part of your software business model. Online help makes your web-site attractive for search engine crawlers and brings you targeted traffic from Google, Bing, and other search engines. A good online manual presents your product as serious and credible. You may easily resolve users’ issue by referring that user to a certain page of your online help. Many software vendors, from large companies to independent developers, clearly understand why they need to create online manuals. Make your help system a part of your web sites and attract more prospects and generate more sales of your software.