RoboHelp Training Overview
Accelebrate's private, online or onsite, RoboHelp 2022 training course teaches attendees how to create and deliver attractive and functional online user assistance projects, including how-to manuals, policy documents, procedure guides, help desk content, and more.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Create new RoboHelp projects and topics from scratch
- Import content from Microsoft Word and HTML files
- Enhance topics with graphics, and interactive multimedia (using e-learning content created in Adobe Captivate)
- Improve the navigation of your content by adding hyperlinks, indexes, and glossaries
- Increase your production efficiency by learning about cascading style sheets, variables, snippets, and master pages
- Control the look of final output via Skins and presets
- Deliver content that can be consumed on any kind of device including desktops, laptop, smartphones, and tablets using output such as Responsive HTML5, WebHelp, HTMLHelp, and even eBooks
Prerequisites
No prior experience is presumed.
Outline
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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
- Browse the Outputs
- Output Frameless Output
- Output Responsive HTML5 Output
- Output an eBook
- Output Microsoft HTML Help (PC only)
Creating Projects
- Create a New Project
- Create a New Topic
- Rename and Delete Topics
- Import HTML Files as Topics
- Import Word Documents as Topics
- Edit Text Formatting in Source View
Project Structure, TOCs, and Styles
- Create Project Folders
- Create a TOC Section
- 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
Links
- 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, Insert, and Edit a Variable
- Insert and Edit Snippets
Tables, Indexes, Search, and Glossaries
- Insert a Table
- Apply Table Templates
- Add Index Keywords from Within a Topic
- Add Index Keywords on the Index Panel
- Add Index Entries to Multiple Topics at Once
- Create a See Also Keyword
- Insert a See Also Placeholder into a Topic
- Add Custom Search Terms
- Add a Search Synonym
- Add Glossary Terms
- Use the Glossary Term Converter Script
Templates, Layouts, and Word/PDF Output
- Add a Favicon and Select a Default Topic
- Modify a Home Page Tile Image
- Change the Logo Used on the Home Page
- Create a Topic Layout
- Edit a Topic Layout
- Create a Book TOC
- Add TOC Front and Back Matter
- Create a MS Word Template
Windows, Browsing, and Context Sensitive Help (CSH)
- Create an HTML Help 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 to Topics
Conclusion
Training Materials
All attendees receive comprehensive courseware covering all topics in the course.
Software Requirements
- A recent version of Windows or macOS, with at least 8 GB RAM
- Web browsers: a recent version of Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Safari
- Microsoft Word
- Adobe RoboHelp 2022 or later
- Optionally, we can also cover interaction with Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Captivate, or Microsoft SharePoint
