Welcome to Help Authoring Software Store and a Community Website

If you create or if you want to create a help system in the HTML Help format (presently, the most popular and convenient format for a help system in Windows), this site is for you. You will find here all the necessary software for help authoring within this format and articles on the topic and even the answer to any question in our help authoring forum and newsgroup.

Our top priority is creating a resourse containing all useful information on help authoring in the HTML Help format (utilities, solutions, articles, including those for developers), and also a convenient place for tech writers and people concerned with help authoring to communicate at.

This project was lauched in November 2003 under the auspices of A!K Research Labs.

Getting Additional Information

A lot of useful information about help authoring and tech writing can be found in public forums and newsgroups, the list of the most popular ones is given below:

microsoft.public.helpauthoring - Microsoft newsgroup for general help authoring discussion. You can read it and post your messages right at chmtools.com.
HATT - HATT is a discussion group, has about 4,000 members. Here you can discuss everything related to the online Help tools and techniques.
TECHWR-L - This mail list has more than 5,000 direct subscribers and an estimated daily readership of more than 10,000 people worldwide.

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