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Understand WebHelp, HTML Help and Windows Help output options

Start your Help Project

Design templates

• Work with Headers and Footers
• Create the Table of Contents
• Create the Keyword Index
• Design the Look and Feel
• Use Conditional Text
• Optimise graphic images
• Match your corporate style
• Make something dull into a good read
• Learn about -
• Good and bad examples.
• Style and Layout.
• Readability.

Module 1 - The Basics

• Creating a New Project
• Exploring the Project Manager
• Exploring Project Settings
• Editing a Topic
• Adding a New Topic
• Editing a Headline
• Renaming and Deleting Topics
• Creating a Book
• Adding and Deleting Books
• Renaming Books
• Moving Books
• Adding Pages to Books
• Specifying the Project's Default Topic
• Generating a Project

Module 2 - Cascading Style Sheets

• Benefits of using Cascading Style Sheets
• Applying a Style Sheet a Topic
• Applying Paragraph Styles
• Editing Styles
• Creating a Font Set
• Creating a New Style Sheet File
• Using Inline Styles
• Creating and Using a Character Style
• Spell Check
• Using Multi-File Find and Replace

Module 3 - Links and Different Outputs

• What sort of Links are there?
• Adding Hyperlinks to Existing Topics
• Changing Hyperlink Colours
• Adding an Independent Topic
• Adding Popup's
• Creating Custom-Sized Popup's
• Using Link View
• Renaming the Project
• Single Source to WebHelp
• Creating 508 Compliant Web Help
• Generating Java Help
• Generating Oracle Help
• Generating Printed Documentation

Module 4 - Graphics and Multimedia

• Strategies for including Graphics and Multimedia
• Adding Graphics to a Help Project
• Resizing an Inserted Graphic
• Adding a Background Image
• Adding a Baggage File
• Adding Hotspots to a Graphic
• Adding Sound to a Topic Background
• Adding Multimedia to a Topic
• Importing a RoboDemo Movie

Module 5 - Help Controls and Conditional Text

• Adding a Shortcut Help Control
• Adding a Close Window Help Control
• Adding a Related Topics Help Control
• Adding a Splash Screen Help Control
• Creating and Using a Conditional Build Tag
• Defining a Build Tag Expression

Module 6 - Tables and Dynamic HTML

• Tables and HTML
• Inserting a Table
• Formatting a Table
• Adding a Horizontal Rule
• Using a Graphic as a Horizontal Rule
• Inserting a Symbol
• Adding Bullets to Paragraphs
• Formatting a Heading with a Fade in DHTML Effect
• Using a Style to Apply DHTML Effects
• Applying Fly-in DHTML Effects
• Working with Positioned Text Boxes
• Creating a Trigger

Module 7 - Indexes, Glossaries and Reports

• Strategies for creating good indexes
• Creating an Index with the Smart Index Wizard
• Removing an Index Entry
• Adding Index Keywords with the WYSIWYG Editor
• Adding Keywords with the Topic Properties
• Adding Keywords with the Index Designer
• Creating a Multilevel Index
• Creating a See Also Name
• Adding a Link Control to a Topic
• Adding Glossary Terms on the Glossary Designer
• Changing the Status of a Topic
• Generating a Report

Module 8 - Forms and Frames

• How can Forms be useful?
• Inserting a Form and Text Field
• Adding Radio Buttons
• Using the TrueCode Editor to Add a Radio Button
• Adding a Check Box
• Inserting a Drop-Down Menu
• Adding a Text Field with Scroll Bars and Initial Text
• Adding Submit and Reset Buttons
• Setting Form Properties
• Importing Files into the Project
• Creating a Frameset
• Modifying Frameset Controls
• Linking Topics into Frames

Module 9 - Skins and Templates

• Applying Existing Skins to Topics
• Creating and Using a Custom Skin
• Creating and Applying a Template with Headers and Footers
• Editing a Template

Module 10 - Customising and Application Help

• Integrating Help with a Software Application
• Creating a Browse Sequence
• Previewing an Application Needing Application Help
• Creating a Topic to be Context Sensitive
• Importing a Map File
• Merging Projects
• Adding a Shortcut to the Desktop

Number of days: 1 or 2 days