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And there's a growing market of tools to make it easy to convert your paper-based documentation into online help. Certainly Microsoft makes it easy to convert Word docs to help format, but there's similar conversions possible between, say, Frame and DOS and Windows help engines. It's not necessarily either/or, especially with a product like 3D Studio that has a high price that could justify both types of docs. It's only the ultra-cheap, get-it-all-on-CD-for-$79-retail kind of products that demand online docs. All the Mac's docs are online, including the expensive shelf-filling paper ones. You can search it all by keyword if necessary. Very nice!