Majority of the Help Authoring Tools are paid ones, so we decided to check how to create help file using free help authoring tools. Here we will check process to create compiled help files (. Adobe Photoshop Cs3 Windows 8.1. chm files). The first available option is ‘HTML Help Workshop’ from Microsoft.

Free help-file creation tools, free help-file authoring. Open source, freeware. Nscp 2010 Pdf more. And the best news is that you don't need MS Word to create your help. Descargar Office 2007 Gratis En Espa Ol Con Serial on this page. Download Open Source Chm Builder. Chm file converter open source. It can convert Windows HTML help (CHM) file into Word document.

You can get it from here – This is a pretty simple tool which allows to create separate files – Table Of Content (TOC) File, Html File, Text File, Index files etc. After creation of all these different files, you can create a Project and add these files to this project. Once you compile this Project and it will generate CHM (Compiled Help) file. However interface of Microsoft ‘HTML Help Workshop’ is very basic and not suitable for the first time help authors. 2) HelpMaker is an OpenSource project which comes with a Wizard to create help files quickly. Official Site of HelpMaker (www.vizacc.com) is not working anymore, so providing Softpedia link for software download – Process of creating a Help file starts with creating a new Solution from – File Menu>New Solution It comes with a pre-set list of pages which ideally should be in a Help File, we can add or modify pages – Once we are done with Wizard, we will have all the HTML Pages created with TOC and Index. We can edit ‘Help Topic Id’ and ‘Help Context No’ using ‘Power Editor’ (can be accessed using right click), this ‘Help Context No’ will be used to show correct page of help file depending on the context of you Software Screen from where we pressed F1.