With RoboHELP, you'll discover the fastest and easiest way to create professional Windows Help Systems.
Creating a Help System
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To create a new Help System with RoboHELP, simply click on the New Project button.
Click [->] to see how to create a new Help Project with RoboHELP.
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Create a New Project
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Create a New Project
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We've now given the project a title, filename, and working directory.
Next, we'll specify a development environment.
Click [->] to view the development environments RoboHELP supports and to see how to select one.
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Create a New Project
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Create a New Project
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The RoboHELP Tool Palette
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You are now looking at the main window of RoboHELP. RoboHELP works within Word for Windows 6 or 2, giving you a powerful, easy to use environment.
RoboHELP adds menu items and a floating tool palette to Microsoft Word. The tool palette provides one click access to the most commonly used help authoring functionality.
Click [->] and we'll point to each tool and describe its functionality.
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Tool Palette
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The Create Topic Tool
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Use the Create Topic Tool to quickly indicate that a section of text is a Help Topic.
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A Help Topic is like a page in a printed manual. A Help Topic can be accessed from any point defined within a Help system.
The first topic in a Help system is usually the Contents topic. Notice that RoboHELP has already created the Contents topic for you.
Click [->] to see the next tool.
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Tool Palette
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The Create Jump Tool
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Use the Create Jump Tool to easily create jump hotspots. Jump hotspots are green, underlined words which the user can click to go to another topic.
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A Jump is equivalent to 'cross-referencing' text in a printed manual. It creates a path between two topics of information.
Click [->] to see the next tool.
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Tool Palette
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The Insert Graphic Tool
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Use the Insert Graphic Tool to easily add graphics to your Help Systems.
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You can also use the Insert Graphic tool to create multiple hotspot graphics - pictures which have multiple areas the user can click to go to different topics - similiar to a touch sensitive map.
Click [->] to see the next tool.
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Tool Palette
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The Create Popup Tool
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Use the Create Popup Tool to create Popup Topics.
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Popup Topics are used to define terms. Popup Topics are displayed in a small temporary window that pops up when the user clicks on the term.
Click [->] to see the next tool.
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Tool Palette
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The Make Project Tool
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RoboHELP allows you to quickly make (compile) your Help System by clicking on the Make Project Tool.
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RoboHELP takes care of all the details - like generating the Help System source code and running the Help Compiler. And RoboHELP is fast. The entire generate/compile time using RoboHELP is usually just seconds. With other tools, it can take minutes or hours.
Click [->] to see the next tool.
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Tool Palette
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The Test Project Tool
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Once a project is 'Made' (compiled), you can quickly test run it by clicking on the Test Project Tool.
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RoboHELP will then run your Help system in the WinHelp Viewer so you can view it exactly as your user's will.
This concludes the overview of the primary tools on the RoboHELP tool palette.
Click [->] to continue.
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Tool Palette
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Creating a Help System
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When you start a Help project, RoboHELP automatically creates the Contents topic for you. Next, you may want to add jumps from the Contents topic to other topics in the Help system.
To create a jump to a new topic, you simply select the location for the jump then click on the Jump button.
Click [->] to see how easy it is to create a jump with RoboHELP.
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Create a Help Document
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RoboHELP guides you through the process. You set the jump text by inserting it in the box above.
You can then link the jump to an existing topic by selecting it in the Choose Help Topic box, or link the jump to a new topic that you create on the fly.
Click [->] to see how to insert a jump and link it to a new topic called Help Information.
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Create a Help Document
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The new Topic and Jump have been added to the Help project.
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Notice the additional codes that RoboHELP added to the left of the Help Information topic. These are special codes for the Help compiler. RoboHELP takes care of adding these for you - allowing you to spend your time on the contents of your Help system, rather than on remembering the peculiar codes required by the Help compiler.
Click [->] to see how to add new text to a topic. In this example, we'll type new text, but you can just as easily import existing text.
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Create a Help Document
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With RoboHelp you can also easily create Popup Topics to define specific words.
Click [->] to see how to create a Popup Topic defining the word RoboHELP.
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Create a Help Document
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The Popup Topic 'RoboHELP' has been added to the Help system.
Adding graphics to a Help system is also easy with RoboHELP. Simply click on the Insert Graphic button.
Click [->] to see how to add a graphic to our Popup Topic 'RoboHELP'.
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Create a Help Document
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Notice that the special codes required to display the graphic have been added to the 'RoboHELP' Popup Topic.
Now we are ready to test run the Help system.
Click [->] to see how to make (compile) a Help system and run it.
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Run the Help File
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The Help system is now displayed within the Windows Help viewer. The jump 'Help Information' is visible as green, underlined text.
Click [->] and watch as we try out the Help system by clicking on the 'Help Information' jump.
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Run the Help File
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Within the topic 'Help Information', you can see that the term RoboHELP is green and underlined, signifying that it has a Popup definition.
Click [->] and watch as we try out the Popup. Then we'll close the Help system to return to the RoboHELP development environment, ready for additional Help Authoring.
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Run the Help File
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New PopUp
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Run the Help File
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This concludes the overview of RoboHELP. You've seen that in just a few minutes you can easily create a Help system complete with jumps, topics, popups and graphics.
And we've only just scratched the surface of what you can do...imagine adding multiple hotspot graphics, watermarks and textures, macros, secondary windows and other advanced features to your Help systems. It's just as easy with RoboHELP...
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