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Getting Started

Welcome to DataSheets Pro

What DataSheets Pro does, who it's for, and how the pieces fit together, so you know where to start.

DataSheets Pro helps you create professional, on-brand product documentation (data sheets, sell sheets, specification sheets, installation guides, certificates and dozens more) and export a print-ready PDF. There's no design software to learn: you pick a document type, DataSheets Pro sets up the structure and styling, and you fill in the information.

What you can make

You start every document from a document type. There are 66 types across six families, from a Product Data Sheet or Sell Sheet to a Certificate of Conformance, an Installation Guide or a Safety Data Sheet. Each type comes pre-structured with the sections that kind of document usually needs.

Inside a document you work with sections and blocks: headings, tables, bullet lists, product images, specifications, warnings, signatures and more. A live preview shows the finished page as you edit, and what you see is what exports.

Two ideas worth knowing early

Products. As you build documents, DataSheets Pro quietly keeps a record of each product in My Products. That lets you reuse the same product facts across several documents and keep them consistent. You never have to create a product by hand, because they appear automatically.

Source of truth. When several documents describe the same product, one of them acts as the source of truth for the shared facts. Editing it keeps the product record current and lets the other documents update to match, on your command, never behind your back.

Try it before you sign up

The "Try the builder" demo lets you use the full document builder without an account. You can build and preview a document; to export a clean PDF (without the free-plan watermark) you create an account and choose a plan. See Plans and what each includes.

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