Help & Manual is a Windows-based help authoring tool published by EC Software, a company based in Austria. Like many help authoring tools, Help & Manual allows the writer to create a single source text which it then converts to a number of target formats. In this case, the author creates the source text using an editor built into the Help & Manual program. The text, along with the user's settings for the project, are stored in XML files. Version 6.0 of Help & Manual was released November 2011.