Mark,

If I've got lots of typing to do I'd do it in Word and paste the content into ForeHelp only because it's editor is kind of sluggish, but it does do all of the kinds of text markup that I do in help files. But it's WYSIWYG environment to build (hilight text click a button) and jump to topic links (shift click a link) and hyperlink navigator window (kind of like the FrontPage hyperlink navigator view) are really cool. Although I've never sat down and tried working in Robohelp. ForeHelp was the first thing I tried (I got the 1.0 version for something like $60 from Borland) and I liked it so well I stopped evaluating other help authoring tools.

>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).
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>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
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> for each bookmark in ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
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>I don't believe ForeHelp can provide that kind of power.