Online Help uses the books and pages metaphor to represent categories and topics in your table of contents. Book icons represent categories or chapters for organizing your topics. Page icons represent the individual units of information or topics. In Microsoft HTML Help, both books and pages can display topics when clicked. The destinations can include local and remote topics, Web addresses (URLs), email addresses, FTP sites, and newsgroups. Sound and video clips can even play when books and pages are selected from the table of contents.
There are different ways to add books and pages including:
Auto Create TOC: To save time, you can automatically generate the pages in your table of contents by using the Auto Create TOC feature. The pages are sorted alphabetically, and you can easily rearrange their order and group them under different books to customize your table of contents.
Drag and Drop: You can add pages by dragging and dropping topics from the Topic List into the TOC Composer. You can even convert any of these pages into books.
Create
new pages: Click New
Page . You set up the destination for the page and
customize how you want it to look and behave by changing its properties.
Pages can link to single topics and other destinations. They can also be
assigned to information types.
Create
new books: Click New
Book . Books can open a hierarchy of topics when clicked.
They can also link to a single topic or a variety of other destinations.
Books can be assigned to information types. You set up the destination
for the page and customize it by changing its properties.