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• Documentation Module. You can now compile to a Printable manual, MS Word compatible document or with Fast-Help and above, to PDF as well
  Website Help. With Fast-Help and above you can now compile your data as a fully working website, complete with table of contents, index and search engine
• Customizable Html Header section. You can now specify what appears in the HEAD section for each Topic allowing you to use your own JavaScripts, Character Sets or whatever else you may need.
• Tasks. You can now manage all your Todo's
• Auto Scroll support for mouse-wheel
• Nonscroll support in Html
• Conditions. Replacing Filters. Conditions are similar to the concept of conditional compiles in languages such as Delphi and C++
• Browse buttons now added and automatically managed for Nonscroll regions
• Integrated Hotspot editor
• Thesaurus
• Merge support for HtmlHelp Projects
• Unicode support. You can now enter text in any language in the world
• Bi-directional editing and support for Asian and Eastern languages
• The Translation Assistant has been completely rewritten and now sports a much more intuitive interface with status icons to monitor the translation status of text.
• Template support for loading consistent Topic layouts
  

• Keywords: In v2 you could add keywords above the help text. Now there is a central Index which mimics what you see in your compiled help file. You can add keywords by using the toolbar button on the Index tab, or by right-clicking selected text in the editor and selecting "Add as a keyword" from the menu
• Complete rewrite
• No more Font Registry. You can now add whatever fonts you like and these will be managed internally by Fast-Help.
• Popups in HtmlHelp. Previously you could only create Text Popups, a limitation of Microsoft's HtmlHelp. However, we have overcome this limitation and offer you three possibilities. [1] Continue to use Text Popups. [2] Html Popups, which use an activeX. [3] WinHelp Popups within a CHM file, as Microsoft's own help system does. This gives you maximum flexibility and you can flick between any of these choices at the click of a button
• No more ruler. As help systems become more Html centric rather than document centric, the concept of a ruler is less relevant and has been dropped
• Tabs were always a problem with WinHelp and HtmlHelp. Now tabs are handled using cascading style sheets in a more intelligent way, but tabs are a document centric concept and have a lesser role in html. But the effect of the new editor in Fast-Help is that you will get a much more consistent result no matter what you type or tab in
• No more Inheritance. The inheritance feature was deemed to be rarely used and did not merit the huge maintenance to continue it into v3
• WinHelp support for 16bit help files, for use in Windows v3.1 has been dropped
  PocketPC support is not in the first release of v3 as it was not ready. We are working on a much more powerful PocketPC release for the near future.
• Database back end has now changed to the MS Access format
• Table support is now complete. There is now huge flexibility in what you can do.
• Links are now much more powerful
• Variables now support full formatting whereas before they were plain text
• Style support
• Much more powerful html export features in the new and more powerful editor
  Contents editor is now on the main tab. Split View and Contents View have been merged
• Filter View is gone and now there is a Properties tab below the help text editor where you can change properties
• Drag and drop support in Contents
• Popups are now handled separately from Topics and have their own tab at the bottom of the contents section on the left.