HelpSmith is an innovative help authoring tool allowing you to create CHM Help files, Web Help systems, and Printable Documentation using the same source. The intuitive environment includes a powerful Word-like Unicode word-processor for editing help topics with dynamic styles and live spell checker, advanced approach to working with graphical and video files, automatic correction system, and many other useful tools.

Based on the original technologies HelpSmith, enables creating help files and documentation from start to finish and also lets you import help topics from HTML, Word RTF, TXT files that can be written in multiple Unicode or ANSI charsets.

You can use HelpSmith to supply technical documentation for your application in many output formats one of which is context-sensitive CHM HTML Help files, a standard format for Help documentation in Windows. HelpSmith has support for all the features of HTML Help CHM format, so you can create the hierarchical table of contents, Index, also you can add and customize chm viewer's help windows, and so on.

If you used other help authoring software before, HelpSmith offers the Import facility, which lets you import your existing help projects stored in HTML Help Workshop (HHP files) or even directly from CHM files.

The "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" principle makes working with HelpSmith as easy as working with regular office application. And, actually, you do not have to learn any technical details to develop first-class help files and documentation with HelpSmith.