After you design a template, you can create new projects based on the layout. (For more information about custom templates, see Designing templates.)
From the File menu, select New - Project.
Click the New tab.
Select Custom
as the project type and click OK.
Select the template to use with the new project (Custom 1 or Custom 2), and then click Next.
Enter the title of the new project. The title identifies your project when it is displayed in the Help viewer (for example, “Caribbean Getaways”).
Enter the name of the new project file. This is the file name you select whenever you open the project. The file name is assigned the .MPJ extension (for example, enter “Caribbean” and the project is named Caribbean.mpj).
Specify where you want to save the project and its files. This is the drive and folder where you project files are stored. You can save them on a network or on a local drive in any folder or subfolder (for example, C:\Caribbean).
As a shortcut, you can click to navigate
to the drive/folder to select it as the project location.
Enter the title of the first topic added to your project. This can be the opening topic such as Welcome or Getting Started. The program creates a new HTML topic based on the title you assign and adds the .HTM extension to it (for example, “Welcome to the Caribbean.htm”).
Note: “First Topic” is the default name of the first topic created unless you type a different name. If you are not sure what name you want to use, accept the default and rename it later.
Click Finish. The new project is created and the first topic opens in the WYSIWYG Editor.
The text that is displayed in the topic provides a visual clue to get you started. If your custom template includes style sheets, you can attach one of them to the file and start authoring its content. If your custom template includes other files such as topics, a table of contents or index, you can open any of them and start working.