This is the main editor where you will spend most of your time. It shows an approximately WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) view of your topic pages. You can edit multiple topics at the same time in multiple tabs.

To load a topic into the page editor just select it in the Project Explorer, either in the Table of Contents or in the Topic Files section. Then you can start editing as you would in a normal text editor.

To load a topic into a new tab right-click on the topic in the Project Explorer and select Open topic in a New Tab.

To move a tab to a new position just drag the tab left or right. You cannot move the leftmost tab, which is the main browsing tab.

To undock a tab to an external window drag it away from the editor or double-click on its tab. To redock an undocked tab double-click on its header bar.

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 and Server versions 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.