Help & Manual 5 wins SIA Best Overall Utility Award

Salzburg, July 24, 2008

Picture from the award ceremeony EC Software announces that its flagship product Help & Manual 5 has just won the Shareware Industry Award 2008 in the category Best Overall Utility.

This follows on the consecutive 2004 and 2005 wins in the Best Vertical Market Tool category for the product's predecessor, Help & Manual 4.

The award was presented at the Software Industry Conference in Boston on July 19.

Runners-up were Registry First Aid from Rose City Software, WinRAR from win.rar GmbH and WinZip from WinZip International. The Software Industry Awards are chosen by a jury of several thousand shareware authors, journalists, reviewers and representatives of companies that develop, package, sell or distribute shareware products in 87 countries worldwide.

About Help & Manual

Help & Manual is a single-source help authoring, documentation and technical writing tool. Projects developed in Help & Manual can be published simultaneously as Webhelp, Microsoft HTML Help, Adobe PDF manuals and other formats. Strong support for conditional output and a powerful command line build interface make managing and producing multiple versions efficient and easy.

Just released at the end of June, Help & Manual 5 has been quick to attract attention in the software, help authoring and documentation sectors as a documentation authoring package to be reckoned with.

Building on the strengths of its very popular predecessor, version 5 is now entirely XML-based and adds powerful new features for multi-user editing and team authoring, efficient content reuse and managing very large projects. It also implements the intuitive MS Office 2007 style Ribbon interface and adds a wealth of new and improved features on almost every level.