Looking for writing User Manual

We developed a application and we want to know is there any tool or Apex supports writing user Manual/technical manual (help file) .
Currently we are writing in word doc.
Any help is really appreciated.
Regards

Hi,
Apex has built in help facilities. Virtually any item you create has a help text section which can be activated at an item level. Context sensitive page level help can also be added to an application which automatically hooks into this help text. See the following
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17556_01/doc/user.40/e15517/app_comp.htm#CHDCDBFB
A tip for this is that if you enter your help text as raw html, it will display formatted. An easy way to do this is to create a dummy page with one item that is a text area with HTML editor. You can create your formatted text in this area and then switch the view to html text. This text can then be cut and pasted into the help text field for the relevant item.
Another tip is to create your help text page with a close button (there is a javascript URL for doing this) and then editing the help item in the navigation bar to launch the page as a popup. (Using javascript popup URL).
Regards
Andre

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