Adobe RoboHelp 7 May 25, 2011

Overview
Do you want to create a help system for an application? Maybe you're part of a documentation services team, and would like to enhance the appearance and functionality of help systems using advanced techniques. Learn to use Adobe RoboHelp 7, the authoring tool with advanced features that assists you in creating such projects. In this course, you will work with RoboHelp to create an advanced help system. You will also use advanced options in RoboHelp to create a structured and dynamic help file in multiple formats.
Who Should Attend:
This course is intended for professionals seeking to create or enhance help systems using Adobe RoboHelp.
Performance-Based Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Examine a help system and the RoboHelp environment
Create a new RoboHelp HTML project and add content to it
Import external files
Format the help content with CSS
Add multimedia elements to a help project
Add hyperlinks and bookmarks to a project
Add navigational aids to a project using Adobe RoboHelp
Customize the appearance
Finalize an HTML help project in Adobe RoboHelp

Prerequisites:
Students must have a basic knowledge of HTML. Knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is preferred but not required.
Course Outline:
Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.
Day 1
Lesson 1 - Introduction to RoboHelp for HTML
RoboHelp HTML Basics
Explore the RoboHelp Interface
Topics
TOC Books
Lesson 2 - WebHelp and Topic Formatting
WebHelp
Importing Files
Project Folders
Create a TOC
Text Formatting
Custom Style Sheets
Font Sets
Inline Styles
Spell Check
Multi-File Find/Replace
Compliant WebHelp
Lesson 3 - FlashHelp, Links, PDFs, and Popups
FlashHelp
Links
Importing PDFs
Popups
Custom-Sized Popups
Link View
Broken Links
Lesson 4 - Graphics and Multimedia
Graphics
Background Images
Image Maps
Sound
Captivate Integration
RoboScreenCapture
Lab
Day 2
Lesson 5 - Build Tags and Variables
Conditional Build Tags
User Defined Variables
Lesson 6 - Tables and DHTML
Tables
Lines, Symbols, and Lists
Dynamic HTML
Positioned Text Boxes
Triggers
Lesson 7 - Indexes, Glossaries, Printed Docs and PDFs
Indexes
Subkeywords
See Also Keywords
Glossaries
Reports
Printed Documentation
PDFs
Day 3
Lesson 8 - Forms and Frames
Forms
TrueCode
Check Boxes and Drop Down Menus
Submit and Reset Buttons
Form Properties and Hidden Fields
Frames
Lesson 9 - Skins and Templates
Skins
Publishing Projects
Templates, Headers and Footers
Lesson 10 - Windows, Browsing, and Help
Custom Windows
Browse Sequence
Application Help
Context Sensitive WebHelp