RoboHelp: Introduction

Course Overview

Adobe RoboHelp is the effective way to create professional Help systems and documentation for desktop and web-based applications including .NET and rich internet applications.

This three-day Adobe authorised course will give you the skills required to create Help systems that include Help topics, table of contents, index, glossary, context-sensitive Help and more.

You will cover how to generate Help systems in any popular online Help format and produce press-ready printed documentation. This is a practical course designed to help you fully utilise the power of Adobe RoboHelp.
Course content

INTRODUCTION
Defining the different Help systems
Describing the different output types
Defining HTML-based Help
Defining browser-based Help

PLANNING A HELP SYSTEM
Structuring a Help system
Using the Systematic approach
Evaluating the effectiveness of your Help system

CREATING A NEW PROJECT
The authoring environment
Working with the WYSIWYG editor
Creating a new topic
Checking your settings

WORKING WITH FILES AND FOLDERS
Importing from MS Word
Creating headers and footers
Creating topic templates
Organising the Project Manager

WORKING WITH STYLES
Creating style sheets
Best practice for using style sheets
Using embedded styles

CREATING LINKS
Linking topics
Viewing and testing hyperlinks
ADDING A TABLE OF CONTENTS
Creating a TOC
Adding books and pages
Rearranging books and pages

GENERATING HTML HELP LAYOUTS
Primary layouts and single
source layouts
Using the Output View pane

CREATING AN INDEX
Strategies for indexing
Adding index keywords
Smart indexing

PROJECT REVIEW AND DISTRIBUTION
Distributing online Help
Generating printed documentation
Updating a WebHelp project
Adding navigation
Adding bookmarks and image maps
Working with tables

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS