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Adobe RoboHelp 7/8 (2-days) Outline
- Understand questions to ask before you create a RoboHelp project.
1. Learn the Possibilities before you create a Help project
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Learn the possibilities of the RoboHelp outputs to make an educated decision
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Requirements for the Help project and the
user
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Understand the RoboHelp environment
2. Create a project and navigate the RoboHelp environment
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Before you create an project
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Explore the RoboHelp environment
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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 and multiple
spell check options
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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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Spell check options
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Spell check all topics
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Spell check project
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Run the find and replace utility
4. Format topics with cascading style sheets
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What are cascading style sheets? and why do we use them?
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Access CSS Styles
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Attach a CSS to one topic at-a-time or multiple topics
simultaneously
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Apply a style to text
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Edit a style
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Create a new style for an existing CSS
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Add a watermark to a style
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Create Add Inline styles to text a CSS
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Add an embedded style to a topic — file
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
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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 with HTML
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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. Generate primary output, view results, and use the Publisher
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Learn
to compile and run (view)
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Open,
size and close the compile pane
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Change
compilation settings
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Prevent
problems before you compile
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Check
reports before you compile
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Use
the Publisher
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View
(run) the project
9. Build an index using the Index Designer and the Smart Index Designer
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Use
Topic Properties to add, edit, rename and delete keywords
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Use
the Index Designer to develop and maintain an Index
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Use
the Smart Index wizard to develop and maintain an Index
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Multi-level
index
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Index
reports
10. Add ALinks and related topic controls and the difference between them
11. Add a glossary and expanding glossary hotspots
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Manage
the Glossary Designer
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Expanding
glossary hotspots (Smart Glossary Wizard)
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Distribute
the HTML Help with a glossary
12. WebHelp Windows
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Learn
about when to use a WebHelp window
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Create
a WebHelp window
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Change
the name and caption of a WebHelp window
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Reopen
a WebHelp window
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Select
one or two views
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Select
to use default browser settings
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Manage
and change the size of the window
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Remember
window size and position for the user
13. Use the Browse Sequence Editor
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What
is a Browse Sequence?
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What
is the value of a browse sequence
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Order
browses with the Browse Sequence Editor
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Manipulate
browse sequences
14.
Templates, headers and footers
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What
are topic templates? What are headers/footers?
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How
to use the new header/footer features?
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Create
a topic template with header, footer and body text
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Apply
a topic template to existing topics and new topics
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Import
a topic template
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Add
different properties to the topic template
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How
to use the new header/footer features?
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Create
a topic template with header, footer and body text
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Apply
a topic template to existing topics and new topics
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Adding
different properties to the Topic Template
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Import
a topic template
15. Add and manage text boxes, triggers, and table templates
16.
Skins for WebHelp and FlashHelp
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What
are skins?
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What
you can customize using skins
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Preview
default skins
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How
to apply existing skins from the Skin Gallery
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Edit
and rename skins
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Create
a skin from scratch
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Add
a custom skin to the Skin Gallery
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Import
a Skin
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Remove
a Skin
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Update
a FlashHelp skin
17.
Conditional Topics, Text, and Images using Batch and Single-source Layouts
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What
will this do for me?
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Produce
multiple versions from one set of source files?
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Exclude
topics, text, and images from a compile for multiple outputs
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Create
a layout for each version using one set of source files
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Use
batch to compile multiple versions at the same time
18.
Overview RoboInfo and RoboHelp Enterprise
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What's
the real differences between the two products
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Why
use RoboInfo or RoboHelp Enterprise?
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RoboHelp
Info and RoboHelp Enterprise terms defined
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What
is RoboInfo? Why use it?
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What
is RoboHelp Enterprise? Why use it?
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RoboInfo
and RoboHelp Enterprise feedback reports
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Differences
between RoboInfo and RoboHelp Enterprise
19.
Convert Word documents into a new RoboHelp project
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Steps
to a successful conversion
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Convert
a Word TOC and Word index into the new RoboHelp project with good planning
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Convert
two Word documents into a new RoboHelp project
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Why
use RoboInfo or RoboHelp Enterprise?
20.
Content Management and Multi-author support
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What
are content management and multi-author support
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Version
rollback
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Time
and date stamps
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File
history and comparison
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Labels
and comments
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File
check in and out
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Access
right
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Offline
authoring and telecommuting
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