What's the best way to create a onlinehelp from a word document

Question

I have a 47-page word document containing information about all the functions on a website including screenshots etc. The document is created using styles in word and has a table of content.

What would be the best way to convert this document into a nice online help? I want the users to be able to search the text and browse the information by the chapters in the TOC. I have been able to convert the document into quite nice HTML using gmail, but the TOC isn't converted. Would it be possible to implement the search function on the clientside using some jQuery-plugin or would that be to slow? Color highlighted search matches would be nice to.

On the serverside I'm using ASP.NET 3.5, MySQL and EntitySpaces. Is there any nice tools or components for this type of thing? What would be the easiest way with good result? Thanks!

Answer 1

Why not just release it as a PDF? Simple enough to convert to PDF and well supported on all platforms. If you are dead set on HTML, then you should just put in the work to transition this to a CMS of some sort and maintain it there in the future. Converting Word to HTML will always be a bit tricky.