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What is Doc-To-Help?

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You’re In Control

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Doc-To-Help, by WexTech Systems, Inc., is a hypertext word processing utility for Word for Windows 2.0 that will help you write commercial-ąuality documentation and convert that documentation into Windows on-line Help automatically.

How Doc-To-Help Works

In the past, if you wanted to create on-line Help or a stand-alone hypertext document, you would have to purchase a software package such as Microsoft’s Windows Software Development Kit, compose the text for your Help, and then spend hours painstakingly annotating your text to indicate all your desired context strings, topie designations, keyword lists, browse seąuences, pop-up definitions and cross-references.

Doc-To-Help is based on the premise that we all think in hypertext to start with, so most of the connections and cross-references that make hypertext so useful are already implied in our “fiat” documents. Doc-To-Help assists you in creating and formatting great-looking documents and then automatically draws out and implements the internal connections to create hypertext Help.

For example, if you define a word in the glossary of your document, it’s because you want your reader to have access to the definition of that word. In on-line Help, definitions pop up when the reader clicks on the word in ąuestion. Doc-To-Help automatically takes the definitions from your glossary and assigns them to pop up when the reader clicks on the word.

Of course, you still retain control over both the document and the on-line Help. The document templates are customizable; you can indicate text as Doc-only or Hclp-only and still produce the printed document and the Help from a single source document. And because Doc-To-Help works from within Word for Windows 2.0, you have all the features, power and convenience of Word at your fingertips at all times.

Windows Magazine may have put it best in its rave review of Doc-To-Help: “Using Doc-To-Help, if you’re writing a manuał you’re writing the Help file at the same time!”

Introducing Doc-To-Help

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