RE: Single-source with Word - Help solutions question

["Sharon Burton" <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com>]

****Vendor alert!****

You might want to look at Flare from MadCap Software at
www.MadCapsoftware.com. We have a downloadable trial.

And this workflow is one we support easily. A lot of people have it.


sharon

Sharon Burton
951-369-8590


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Subject: Single-source with Word - Help solutions question



Hi Everybody,

I am doing some testing to create on-line Help out of our procedures for
employees. We need to use Word documents that are the source, and create
the help as web-help, net-help, or whatever the software wants to call
the help that is designed more like a website. I need to be able to
create the help, edit the Word document, and then regenerate to add the
changes to the help.

We have tested with Doc-to-Help and Word2Help.

We have not been able to test with RoboHelp because their demo will not
install on our system, despite numerous calls to their tech support. I
would have liked RoboHelp but since I can't test it - we won't buy it
untested.

I am not sure that ePublisher is a solution. I used to use Web-Works
publisher and we had to pay someone to set up the style sheets for us. I
need something that is easy and intuitive to work with. (Though I
suppose trying a demo can't hurt)

Are there any other SW packages out there that let me single source with
a Word file to create help?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Deborah

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