Adobe RoboHelp 7

Duration: 2/3 days
Time: 10am - 6pm. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 12-1pm
Course Materials: Vendor Authorized Courseware provided
Locations: Reston, VA / On-Site
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Instructor: John Daigle
Cost: $1495
Registration: Click Here to Register

Course Synopsis

This class provides you with the concepts and skills to use RoboHelp effectively. RoboHelp is the industry standard for Help authoring. It’s the preferred program if you are a Help author, technical writer, or programmer tasked with creating Help systems for desktop or Web-based applications. RoboHelp allows the user to create help systems which include Help Topics, Table of Contents, Index, Glossary, Context-Sensitive Help, and more.

Who Should Attend

Professionals seeking to create or enhance Help Systems using RoboHelp. Users will benefit from the many tips and tricks, as well as special exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring problems, questions and samples from their working environment to the class for group discussion.

Prerequisites

Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. Basic knowledge of HTML is highly suggested.

What You Will Learn

Planning a Help System
Create an HTML Help Project
Using Files, Folders, & Styles in Creating a Help System
Adding Media
Creating Basic Links
Creating an Index
Adding a Table of Contents
Generating & Distributing Online Help
Updating and Customizing WebHelp Projects
Generating Printed Documentation
Adding Navigation, Bookmarks, & Image Map Hotspots, Finishing Touches
Conditional Building Tags
Cross-Platform Help Projects
Context-Sensitive WebHelp
RoboHelp Office Pro

LESSON PLANS

Introduction to RoboHelp for HTML
RoboHelp HTML Basics
Explore the RoboHelp Interface
Topics
TOC Books
WebHelp and Topic
Formatting WebHelp
Importing Files
Project Folders
Create a TOC
Text Formatting
Custom Style Sheets
Font Sets
Inline Styles
Spell Check
Multi-File Find/Replace
Compliant WebHelp

FlashHelp, Links, PDFs and Pop-Ups
FlashHelp
Links
Importing PDFs
Popups
Custom-Sized Popups
Link View
Broken Links

Graphics and Multimedia
Add Graphics to a Help Project
Change Image Margins
Rename an Image
Add a Background Image
Add Hotspots to a Graphic
Add Sound to a Topic
Import and Format Topics
Import an Adobe Captivate Demo
Use RoboScreenCapture

Build Tags and Variables
Create Conditional Build Tags
Define a Build Tag Expression
Create a User Defined Variable
Insert and Edit a User Defined Variable

Tables and DHTML
Insert a Table
Format a Table
Add a Horizontal Line
Insert a Symbol
Add a Bulleted List
Format a Heading with a Fade
Apply Fly in DHTML Effects
Work with Positioned Text Boxes
Create a Trigger

Indexes, Glossaries, Printed Docs and PDFs
Run the Smart Index Wizard
Remove an Index Entry
Add Index Entries “On the Fly”
Add Keywords with the Topic Properties
Add Subkeywords to the Index
Create a See Also Keyword
Add a Link Control to a Topic
Add Glossary Terms
Generate a Report
Generate Printed Documentation
Generate a PDF

Forms and Frames
Create a New Topic
Insert a Form and Form Element
Add Radio Buttons
Edit a Topic’s HTML Code
Add a Check Box
Insert a Drop-Down Menu
Add a Multi-line Text Field
Add Submit and Reset Buttons
Set Form Properties
Import HTML Files
Create a Frameset
Modify Frameset Attributes
Link Topics into Frameset Regions

Skins and Templates
Use a Skin
Create a Custom Skin
Publish a Project
Create a Topic Template
Edit a Template

Windows, Browsing and Help
Create a Custom Window
Create a Browse Sequence
Review a Web Application’s Source Code
Publish a WebHelp Project
Review CSH Source Code
Create a Custom WebHelp Window
Create a Map File and Assign Map IDs