Introduction to Adobe RoboHelp

Easily author, personalize, and collaborate to create versatile help systems, policy content, and knowledgebases

Adobe® RoboHelp® offers exciting new features to create interactive help systems and knowledgebases with multichannel, multidevice publishing options. Save time with reusable assets, automated context-sensitive help authoring, and advanced dynamic user-centric content. Boost participation with community-authored content and external web content.

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Course objectives

As with all of our classes, our Introduction to Adobe RoboHelp training classes are hands-on and project-driven. In this 2-day introductory class, you will learn the essential Adobe RoboHelp skills that will get you up and running. Among other things, you will learn how to create projects from scratch, add content (topics, images, and multimedia), add links, create TOCs and Indexes, add variables and conditional content, and output into such popular formats as HTMLHelp, Frameless, and Responsive HTML5.

The current version of RoboHelp that we offer for our public classes is Adobe RoboHelp 2020 (for Mac or PC). If you are using an older version of Adobe RoboHelp, contact us about private training, or you can download the free RoboHelp trial for this course (new and legacy versions of RoboHelp can co-exist on the same computer). Your instructor will be happy to touch upon the differences between the different software versions throughout the course.

Because students will work along with the instructor to complete a series of projects, we recommend using two displays in our online classes (this could be two monitors, two computers or a computer and a tablet), so that the student can keep one eye on the instructor’s screen as they work.

An eBook copy of the workbook and the data files will be sent to you prior to the start of the class.

Who should attend the Introduction to Adobe RoboHelp training class?

The RoboHelp training class is designed for the beginning to intermediate RoboHelp user and will teach you the essential skills needed to create and deliver user assistance (Help systems, policies and procedures, and knowledge bases).

Prerequisites

Students attending this training class should already have a solid understanding of their operating system (Mac or Windows), know how to use their keyboard and mouse, and how to drag a program from one window to the other on a dual monitor system. They should understand how to open programs, open, save and close files, and how to locate files on their computers. This is an introductory class, so no prior knowledge of Adobe RoboHelp is required.

Class Topics

Introduction to Adobe RoboHelp

Open an Existing Project • Set the RoboHelp Application Theme • Explore Project Content • Create, Edit, and Delete a Topic • Explore a TOC and an Index • Generate HTML Help • Generate Responsive HTML5 • Generate a Print Version of the Help System • Output an eBook

Creating Projects

Create a Blank Project • Create a New Topic • Rename and Delete Topics • Import HTML Files • Import Word Documents • Edit Text Formatting in Source View

Project Structure, TOCs, and Styles

Create Project Folders • Create a TOC Book • Auto-Create a TOC • Edit Book Names and Reorder Pages in a TOC • Attach a Style Sheet to a Topic • Apply Paragraph Styles • Create a Style Sheet • Remove and Apply a Style Sheet • Create and Apply a Character Style • Format a Bulleted List

Linking

Link to a Word Document • Insert Hyperlinks • Insert Bookmarks • Insert Auto-Sizing Popups

Images and Multimedia

Insert an Image • Add Alternate Text and an Image Title • Add Hotspots to a Graphic • Import Captivate Demos into a Project • Insert Captivate Demos into Topics • Create Drop-Down Text

Tags, Expressions, and Variables

Create a Condition Tag • Apply a Condition Tag • Create a Condition Expression • Apply Topic-Level Tags • Create Dynamic Content Filters • Create a Variable • Work With Snippets

Tables, Indexes, Search, and Glossaries

Insert a Table • Work With Table Styles • Add Index Keywords from Within a Topic • Edit Multiple Topic Properties • Create a See Also Keyword • Insert a See Also Placeholder into a Topic • Add Custom Search Terms • Add a Search Synonym • Add Glossary Terms

Skins, and Master Pages

Add Favicons • Specify a Default Topic • Modify the Home Page Tile • Create a Master Page • Edit a Master Page

Windows, Browsing, and Context Sensitive Help (CSH)
Create a Custom Window • Create a Browse Sequence • Test an API Call for Help • Publish an Output • Review CSH Source Code • Create a Map File and Assign Map IDs

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