Adobe® RoboHelp® 7 software empowers technical communicators, help authors, and web developers to build, manage, and publish content for help systems and standalone knowledge bases.

Fee: $990.00 per person

Upcoming Dates:
Mar. 25-26

Prerequisite: Working with your operating system and a basic understanding of word processing software tool such as FrameMaker & Microsoft Word.

Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on, classroom-delivery training.

Materials: Participants receive reference materials related to course topics. Sample files used in class are available by email, or on disk. Follow up support by email or phone, on topics covered, is available to participants for 90 days.

Further Learning:
Adobe Captivate: Basics
Adobe Acrobat 8 : Essentials I
Adobe Unstructured FrameMaker: Basics
Adobe FrameMaker: Authoring Structured Documents
DITA: Publishing in FrameMaker

Overview

• Overview and Examples
• Formats and Outputs
• A Tour of RoboHelp HTML
• Interface Customization
• Distribution Requirements

Creating a Project

• Folder Structure and Files
• Starting a New Project
• Closing a Project
• Opening a Project

Creating Content

• Creating Topics
• Importing HTML, Word, and Framemaker Files
• Creating Folders
• Controlling Consistency - Headers, Footers, and Templates
• Working With Tables
• Adding Images and "Movies"
• Spell-Checking
• Multi-File Find and Replace

Adding Navigation

• Adding Tables of Contents
• Creating Indexes
• Creating Glossaries
• Linking
• Creating Related Topics Lists

Generating Output

• Review of Output Types
• Generating Online Outputs
• Generating Hard-Copy
• Creating New Single Source Layouts
• Batch Processing

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Changing the Project's Name
• Reporting
• Changing the HTML Editor
• Controlling the Output
• Defining Window Settings
• Creating Style Sheets
• Creating Templates
• Creating Skins
• Applying Conditionality
• Using Variables and Snippets

Objectives: At the end of this course students will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and use of RoboHelp

• Use the RoboHelp interface efficiently

• Create and manipulate projects

• Create and edit content

• Import content such as text, images and video

• Format Tables

• Add and configure Tables of Content

• Create Indexes and Glossaries

• Link between pages and projects

• Produce online output and generate hard copy

• Create Templates and Style Sheets

• Use variables and apply conditional content