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Getting Started

Welcome

Welcome to the Help & Manual Forums! I started this site in the summer of 2002 as a way to communicate with other H&M users. Since then it has grown into a valuable online resource and knowledgebase for everyone who produces help and documentation with H&M.

Before you post questions here please first take the time to become familiar with the program! Read the help, use the other resources described below and use the Search function in the forum. Most beginners' questions have already been answered and you will find plenty of information. (Note: The sections Tutorials & Guides, Tips & Tricks and Templates & Utilities are only included in Search when you are logged on.)

How to Get Started

If you are just getting started with H&M please first read the extensive documentation included with it! This documentation is also available online. Even though it is easy to use, H&M is a powerful and complex program. It is also very different from the word processors you may be familiar with and you will need to learn some new concepts before you can use it efficiently.

Resources

Check out the \Samples subdirectory in the H&M program directory on your computer, where you will find several excellent tutorials and sample projects.

If this is your first experience with help authoring you will need at least a basic understanding of online help formats like WinHelp and HTML Help. Check out the links in the list on the left, they will help to speed up your learning curve.

When you feel ready to learn more have a look at the Tutorials & Guides, Tips & Tricks and Templates & Utilities sections in the forum. There you will find plenty of ideas on how to get more out of H&M and produce better help and documentation.

Have fun!

Tim Green (Forum Admin)

Announcements

Help & Manual 5.2 released

Posted: Tim Green on Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:11 pm

We're proud to announce that Help & Manual 5.2 has just been released. This is our biggest "minor" update to date and it includes so many major features that we are sure that most manufa...
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Warning: Firefox vulnerability installed by Microsoft

Posted: Tim Green on Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:39 am

In a recent update of the .NET framework Microsoft silently installs an extension to Firefox if it is found. This extension enables websites you visit with Firefox to silently install software on your...
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H&M on Twitter

Posted: Tim Green on Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:00 pm

If you use Twitter you might want to follow Help & Manual there:

http://www.twitter.com/helpandmanual

This is still an experiment and I can't yet promise how often the updates will be but if...
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Skinning project configuration

Posted: Tim Green on Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:21 am

New tutorial on a powerful undocumented function of H&M5: You can create your own custom XML skins to change any project configuration settings for individual builds. This allows you to do things ...
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5.1.1 Build 790 - Maintenance Update

Posted: Tim Green on Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:57 am

The official maintenance update 5.1.1 Build 790 is now available on the regular download page:

http://www.ec-software.com/downloads.html

This update corrects a number of issues and also solves s...
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Premium Pack and IE8

Posted: Tim Green on Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:34 am

Anyone testing the IE8 beta and/or Windows 7 with IE8 will notice that there are some formatting problems in the tabbed browsing of the Help & Manual Premium Pack skins. This is going to be easy t...
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

Posted: Tim Green on Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:06 am

Merry Christmas, happy holidays and a joyful and healthy New Year to all our members and customers from the entire EC Software team!

The forum and support desk are going to be on minimum maintenan...
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20% off: VSdocman with H&M support

Posted: Tim Green on Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:10 am

If you document .NET libraries and source code you should have a look at VSDocman from Helixsoft, which has just been updated with full support for Help & Manual 5 professional. This means that yo...
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HM 5.1 with ePub and Version Control

Posted: Tim Green on Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:56 am

Version 5.1 has just been released with active support for MS Visual SourceSafe version control and ePub eBooks. Registered user can get the free update here. See this report for full details....
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New Premium Pack with 14 skins and templates

Posted: Tim Green on Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:48 pm

We’re proud to announce our first Premium Pack for Help & Manual 5. The pack gives you a total of 14 professionally-designed skins and project templates with which you can style your Webhelp and H...
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