>If you are going to be doing much help development at all, get a help authouring tool like ForeHelp or RoboHelp, they will save you an amazing amount of time. I use ForeHelp and am quite happy with it.

I've heard great things about ForeHelp. The reason I don't use it is that its word processor isn't (and can't be) as full-featured as Word's (the version of ForeHelp I looked at didn't even have incremental undo).

For programmers, RoboHELP has the significant advantage that Word includes VBA. I once had to generate a .hh file manually (because RoboHELP doesn't provide map numbers for midtopic IDs). I wrote a very simple VBA program that included a line like

for each bookmark in ActiveDocument.Bookmarks

I don't believe ForeHelp can provide that kind of power.