RoboHelp 2015 Essential Training

Learn how to use RoboHelp 2015 to create technical documentation, including desktop and mobile help systems, and publish output in multiple formats, including HTML5, Word, and PDF.

RoboHelp is Adobe's powerful documentation authoring tool, commonly used for creating online documentation and online help systems for desktop and web-based applications. RoboHelp makes it easy to localize documentation for different markets and generate output for different destinations: web, email, mobile devices, print, etc. Join RoboHelp certified trainer Neil Perlin, as he shows how to use RoboHelp 2015 to create your own layouts and publish output in multiple formats, including HTML5, Word, and PDF. Explore the software's conventions and interface, and learn how to create "topics"—the basic unit of content in RoboHelp. Then discover how to add navigation with tables and links, format content with CSS and master pages, and understand how to use single sourcing to output in various formats from a single layout.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What to know before watching this course
• Use the exercise files

1. Basic Concepts

• What is RoboHelp
• RoboHelp's Interface

2. Creating Content Using Topics

• Creating, opening, and closing projects
• Basic topic tasks
• Managing topics
• Importing HTML files
• Importing Word or Framemaker files
• Inserting graphic objects

3. Navigation

• Table of Contents (TOC) creation
• Creating online glossaries
• Hyperlinks
• Popup and dropdown link concepts

4. Add Formatting

• CSS concepts
• CSS creation
• CSS application
• CSS modification
• Table stylesheets
• Master page concepts, creation, and application
• Layout creation

5. Single Sourcing

• Single sourcing definitions
• Conditional build tag concepts
• Conditional build tag use
• Variable concepts
• Snippet concepts

6. Understanding Outputs vs. Targets

• Output concepts
• Generate single source layouts

Conclusion

• Next steps