Documentation software?

[RMSe17]

I do a lot of software installations and configurations at work, and need to keep a record of software configuration, so things like installation paths, any modified options, license keys or licensing server addresses, so that all computers would have the same configuration, and so that other people could maintain everything.

I inherited this sort of documentation on a large Excel file, where each page corresponded to a program. The Excel interface is very cumbersome for this purpose, as switching to any program takes forever to scroll the pages bar, and the grid through all the pages make things look bad.

Is there some kind of free documentation software that would help me with what I am trying to do? I assume there would be, since documentation of individual files in any kind of software development projects would probably work for what I am trying to do as well, but I just dont know of any, and searching for documentation software brings me to automated code documentation and DB layout programs, which is not what I am looking for.

Maybe something as simple as a program with a vertical bar listing every software as a line, and being able to click on it, to show a text/html like page with all the info listed...

Thanks,
RMSe17

 

[montag451]

Hi,
Think you pretty much answered it yourself -
Write an html page with the tables/links you require.

 

[Markbnj]

The Microsoft Help Compiler isn't a bad format for what you want to do either. I'd say that if you want to locate the docs on a server and access them from anywhere, do them as web pages. If you want to distribute a file do them as MS help. It's essentially HTML with some additional constraints and tags.