This is the main editor where you will spend most of your time. It shows a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) view of your topic pages. To load a topic into the page editor just select it in the Project Explorer. Then you can start editing as you would in a normal text editor.

You can select topics both in the Table of Contents section and the Topic Files section of the Project Explorer. The Topic Files section lists all the topic files in your project, the Table of Contents section only shows those topic files that have entries in the Table of Contents (TOC).

This tab displays the editable settings of the current topic. Among other things you can enter index keywords for the topic here. These keywords will then be included in the index when you publish your project.

Apart from adding index keywords it is better not to change any of the settings displayed here until you become more familiar with working with Help & Manual.

This tab is for experts and is only displayed in the Professional version of Help & Manual. It displays the XML source code of your topics and allows you to edit it.

If you don' t understand what you see here don't worry about it – you don't need to know anything about XML to use Help & Manual efficiently.

For details about XML in Help & Manual see XML and XML editing.