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Cafeteria Training Plan
You create the training class!
Classes can be taught at your site using the cafeteria plan. This means a "core curriculum" of 11 chapters selected by RCAd and followed by 6 client selections. For more information about training, send an e-mail to rightclick@earthlink.net.
For more information about training, send an e-mail
to rightclick@earthlink.net or
call Kathy at 636.561.2303
Core Curriculum:
1. Learn the Possibilities before you buy/create a RoboHelp WebHelp project
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Learn the possibilities to make educated decisions
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Requirements of RoboHelp outputs for the Help develop and the
user
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Understand the RoboHelp environment including Pods
2. Create a WebHelp Help project and navigate the RoboHelp environment
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Before you create a Help project
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Explore the RoboHelp environment
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Use the compile pane
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Understand the necessity of underscores
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Use right-click menus to your advantage
3. Add and manage topics and folders and import Word documents
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What are topics?
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Create, reopen, edit and delete topics
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Add and manage folders
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Import Word documents
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Import PDF and HTML
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Run the spell checker
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Run the find and replace utility
4. Format topics with cascading style sheets
- What
are cascading style sheets (CSS)? and why do we use them?
- Access
CSS Styles
- Attach
a CSS to one topic at-a-time or multiple topics simultaneously
- Apply
a style to text
- Edit
a style
- Create
a new style for an existing CSS
- Add
a watermark to a style
- Create
Add Inline styles to text a CSS
- Add
numbered and bulleted lists
- Add
an embedded style to a topic
5. Add, edit and delete links and popups
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Learn about links
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Create, update and remove links
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View links from the Link View tab
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Create, update and remove two types of popup links
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Use an existing topic as a popup
6. Design a table of contents (TOC) from scratch and use the TOC composer
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Use
the TOC Composer to create, edit, and delete books and topics
- Spell-check TOC
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Automatically create a TOC with the Auto Create TOC
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Print the TOC
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Table of Contents Report
7. Add and size images and horizontal lines
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Learn
about images
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Add
an image to a topic
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Create
and edit horizontal lines
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Using
Images from the Gallery
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Concluding
a topic with a graphic to signal its end
8. Compile the Help project into a CHM/WebHelp
- Learn
to compile and run (view)
- Open,
size and close the compile pane
- Change
compilation settings and the default topic
- Set
primary target
- Prevent
problems before you compile
- Fix
broken links
- View
(run) the project
- Know
the files and software needs for distribution
- Install
HTML Help system files
- Install
WebHelp
9. Build an index with the Index Designer and the Smart Index Designer
- Use
index guidelines
- Use
Topic Properties to add, edit, rename and delete keywords
- Spell-check
index
- Right-click
index entries (on-the-fly)
- Use
the Index Designer to develop and maintain an Index
- Use
the Smart Index wizard to develop and maintain an Index
- Build
a multi-level index
- Index
reports
10. Add ALinks and related topic controls and the difference between them
11.
Build a glossary with the Glossary Designer with expanding hotspots
Cafeteria Plan (select
7 chapters from the following)
- Templates - headers/footers/body text as boilerplate
- WebHelp Skins
- Multi-author support/Version Control
- PDF import and PDF output
- Create context-sensitive Help for WebHelp with JavaScript
- Convert multiple Word documents into a new Help project
including index and Table of Contents
- Add
and manage text boxes, triggers, and tables
- Add
hotspots to graphics (Image Maps)
- Conditional
Build Tags, Batch, and Single Source Layouts (build tags can exclude
topics/text/graphics from your compile so you can have multiple versions
from one set of source files
- Create
printed documentation
- Use
the Browse Sequence Editor
- Convert
WinHelp projects to HTML projects (& WebHelp)
- Manage Multiple TOC's, Indexes, and Glossaries
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