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 Robo-Help. 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 Offi ce Pro

Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: HTML and Captivate. Please take a look at our other course outlines.

Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.

RoboHelp 7 Training Course Outline

Lesson 1
Introduction to RoboHelp 7
HTML
Create an HTML Help Project
Explore the Panes and Toolbars
Explore the Project Pane
Change Project Settings
Edit and Add Topics
Edit a Topic Headline
Rename and Delete Topics
Create a TOC Book
Add, Delete and Rename TOC Books
Move TOC Books
Add Pages to TOC Books
Generate a Project

LESSON 2
WebHelp and Topic Formatting
Create a WebHelp Project
Import an HTML File
Import a Word Document
Rename Topic Titles
Create Project Folders
Auto-create a TOC
Apply a Style Sheet to a Topic
Apply Styles to Selected Paragraphs
Create a New Style Sheet
Create a Font Set
Use Inline Styles
Spell Check
Use Multi-File Find and Replace
Generate 508 and W3C Compliant
WebHelp

LESSON 3
FlashHelp, Links, PDFs and Pop-Ups
Generate FlashHelp Output
Insert Hyperlinks
Change Hyperlink Colors
Import a PDF Document
Add Popups
Create Custom-Sized Popups
Use Link View
Resolve Broken Links

LESSON 4
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

LESSON 5
Build Tags and Variables
Create Conditional Build Tags
Defi ne a Build Tag Expression
Create a User Defi ned Variable
Insert and Edit a User Defi ned Variable

LESSON 6
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

LESSON 7
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

LESSON 8
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

LESSON 9
Skins and Templates
Use a Skin
Create a Custom Skin
Publish a Project
Create a Topic Template
Edit a Template

LESSON 10
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