I used Robohelp for about a month before switching. Never looked back.
I worked for 23 years in the U.S. Navy as an admin specialist, office manager and legal officer. I wrote a lot of standard operating procedures and "gouge" (help) during my time in the service. After retiring, I responded to a job posting for a technical writer. The company was looking for someone experienced with Adobe, Word, Robohelp, etc. The tech writer job had been vacant for about a month, and I would be the only one. I had never worked with Robohelp, but they liked my editing skills and background, and I told them that I'd never met a software package I couldn't learn. I learned enough to get by in editing previously written material. All our stuff was in winhelp format or produced by converting Word to PDF.
Our programming boss told me we were looking at H&M. He asked me to try it and see if it would be a better tool for us. I did, it was, we bought it, and I've since converted everything to H&M. The increase in efficiency is astounding over what Robohelp and Word sourcing provided. I'm currently taking over our training curricula documentation because of the increased efficiency.
The support, especially the forum, is superior also. In the last year, I've become a huge H&M fan and I consider myself to be a reasonably advanced user. If there's anything else out there that compares, I can't find it.
Cheers to all, Jim.
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- Jim Huskey
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I started with MS FrontPage 2003 with Indigoware's Help Publisher for FrontPage. Worked okay for Help, but have outgrown it's capabilities to export to Word and it can't meet my particular single-sourcing needs.
I'm just a few days with H&M and I'm sold on it (now just have to sell the manager on it!) I picked it up and started producing immediately! I've found the interface very intuitive and was able to import previous chm's and Word documents with relative ease. I've been able to dive into advanced features (which are extremely well documented in H&M's own help files) where I still can't get some of the basics completed after trying to import things into RH for a week.
I'm just a few days with H&M and I'm sold on it (now just have to sell the manager on it!) I picked it up and started producing immediately! I've found the interface very intuitive and was able to import previous chm's and Word documents with relative ease. I've been able to dive into advanced features (which are extremely well documented in H&M's own help files) where I still can't get some of the basics completed after trying to import things into RH for a week.