Compiler messages:

It is a good idea to leave all these messages activated as they make it much easier to identify problems when you are compiling.

Export excluded topics if referenced:

This setting is used to prevent dead links if when you are excluding topics from your output with Help & Manual's conditional output tools. When this is selected excluded topics will be exported anyway if they are referenced in links in other topics in your project. If it is not selected you will have dead links in your project.

Topics exported in this way do not have TOC entries – they are exported "invisibly" and will only be displayed when the user clicks on the links referencing them.

Remove dead links to excluded topics:

This is an alternative method for dealing with dead links to excluded topics. If you select this option Help & Manual will simply delete dead links to excluded topics when you publish.

This is really only recommended for testing purposes because the deleted links may leave gaps in your text!

Tolerant handling of Asian languages:

Allows you to compile projects in Asian languages on Windows systems whose language does not match the language of the help project. Some features in the help generated may not work properly (Search, Index) – to test these features properly you need a matching version of Windows.

Help Compilers:

The paths to the Microsoft compilers for Winhelp, HTML Help and Visual Studio Help / MS Help 2.0. You must have these compilers installed to be able to output your projects to these formats!

Note that the MS Help 2.0 compiler (Visual Studio Help) support is only relevant for programmers documenting Visual Studio .NET components. It is irrelevant for all other purposes and cannot be used as a general help or documentation format for application programs.

Resets all the settings and paths to the default values.

Search for  compilers:

Attempts to locate the necessary compiler executable files in your Program Files directory.