You can benefit from RoboHELP's organization, navigation, and indexing capabilities while authoring in an editor other than RoboHELP's WYSIWYG or TrueCode editors. You may be more familiar with creating HTML content in FrontPage or HomeSite, for example, but would like to take advantage of RoboHELP's Project Manager to create a topic structure or create a multi-level index. When you open a file using a non-RoboHELP editor, you'll notice that certain menus are no longer available. Most likely, you can perform the missing functions in the HTML editor you're using.
The following RoboHELP menus and their features are not supported in files you edit with non-RoboHELP editors. Refer to the specific editor's documentation for further information.
Insert menu (Inserting hyperlinks, popups, images, Related Topics, etc.)
Format menu (Inline character and paragraph formatting, style sheet editing, etc.)
DHTML menu (Expanding text and hotspots, drop-down text and hotspots, and other special effects)
Table menu (Inserting tables, modifying existing tables, etc.)
All other features are available when you edit with other editors*:
File menu (Creating new topics, selecting primary target, project settings, etc.)
Edit menu (Cut/Copy/Paste, Find Topic, properties, etc.)
View menu (Toolbars, Output View, viewing by topic title or file name, Tag List, Show menu, etc.)
Tools menu (Reports, Smart Index Topic, Smart Index Wizard, Smart Glossary Wizard, Browse Sequence Editor, resolve broken links, Options, etc.)
Help menu (RoboHELP online Help, tutorial, etc.)
*Warning: It is important that you close all HTML files in non-RoboHELP editors before using any of the features supported in RoboHELP.