Excel Software today announced that they have started shipping QuickHelp 2.0 for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux. “QuickHelp is a development tool for creating and deploying application help on Windows 95 through XP, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Linux. QuickHelp is unique in its ability to author, maintain and test application help in a single tabbed window running on your platform of choice, then deploy the help system to virtually any computer. Help information resides in an XML file distributed with a royalty-free, native viewer executable for each platform.” Version 2.0 adds configurable actions, tables, parameters, default options, precompiled indexes and other performance enhancements. QuickHelp Windows, QuickHelp Mac OS X and QuickHelp Linux are US$195 each or all three platforms for $295.