HelpSmith is an innovative help authoring tool allowing you to create CHM HTML Help files, Web Help systems, Word RTF, PDF, and Printed Manuals from the same source. The reliable help authoring system provides a powerful MS Word-like unicode text editor for editing help topics with dynamic styles and live spell checker, advanced approach to working with multimedia files, and many other useful features.

HelpSmith enables creating documentation and help files from scratch and also lets you import help topics from HTML, Word RTF, TXT files that can be written in different Unicode encodings.

With HelpSmith you can supply help files for your application in popular help formats including HTML Help CHM files, a standard format for program's help files in Windows. HelpSmith has support for all the features of HTML Help CHM format, so you can build the hierarchical table of contents, alphabetical keyword Index, edit chm viewer's help windows, etc..

For experienced technical writers, HelpSmith has the Import functionality, making it possible for you to import your existing help projects stored in HTML Help Workshop (HHP files) or even directly from html help CHM files.

The "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" principle makes the process of using HelpSmith as easy as using a regular office application. And, actually, you do not have to learn any technical details to create first-class CHM and Web Help systems and other documents with the HelpSmith authoring tool.