RoboHelp is the industry standard for Help authoring. It"s the preferred program if you are a Help author, technical writer, or programmer tasked with creating Help systems for desktop or Web-based applications. RoboHelp 8 HTML has the letters HTML in its name; therefore, many people think that RoboHelp is a Web Page development tool (much like Adobe Dreamweaver) it is not. Although you could create terrific Web sites using RoboHelp, its primary mission is to let you quickly, and easily, create Help systems. By the time you have completed this action-packed book (many people can finish in two or three days), you will have mastered the essentials skills that will allow you to create a RoboHelp Help system in several output (including WebHelp, FlashHelp, HTML Help and Adobe Air). You will learn how to create master pages, cascading styles sheets, dynamic HTML effects, forms, frames and more. Introduction to RoboHelp Create an Blank Project | Explore the Pods | Explore the Toolbars | Load the Default Environment | Save an Environment | | Retitle and Rename the Project | Edit a Topic | Edit a Topic Headline | Rename and Delete Topics | Create a TOC Book | Add, Delete and Rename TOC Books | Organize a TOC | Add Pages to TOC Books | Generate a Project Adding Content and Creating Project Structure Create a WebHelp Project | Import an HTML File | Import a Word Document | Import a FrameMaker Document | Rename Topic Titles | Create Project Folders | Auto-Create a TOC Topic Formatting Apply a Style Sheet to a Topic | Apply Styles to Selected Paragraphs | Create a New Style Sheet | Create a Font Set | Use Inline StylesUse Spell CheckFind and Replace Text | Link to a Word File | Generate 508 and W3C Compliant WebHelp FlashHelp, Links, PDFs and Popups Generate FlashHelp Output | Create a New Toolbar | Add Commands to a Toolbar | Insert Hyperlinks | Insert Bookmarks | Import a PDF Document | Insert Auto-Sizing Popups | Insert Custom-Sized Popups | Insert a Text-Only Popup | Use Link View | Resolve Broken Links Graphics and Multimedia Add Graphics to a Help Project | Add an Image Margin | Rename an Image | Add a Background Image | Add Hotspots to a Graphic | Add Sound to a Topic | Import and Format Topics | Insert an Adobe Captivate Demo | Create a Screen Capture Build Tags, Variables and Snippets Create Conditional Build Tags | Define a Build Tag Expression | Create a New Table of Contents | Create a Variable | Insert and Edit a Variable | Create a Snippet | Add a Snippet to a Topic Tables and DHTML Insert a Table | Insert a Table Row | Create a Table Style | Add a Horizontal Line | Insert a Symbol | Add a Bulleted List | Format a Heading with a Fade in DHTML Effect | Apply Fly in DHTML Effects | Work With Positioned Text Boxes | Create a Trigger Indexes, Search Terms, Glossaries and Docs Run the Smart Index Wizard | Remove and Add Index Entries | Add Keywords via Topic Properties | Add Subkeywords to the Index | Create a See Also Keyword | Insert a Link Control | Add Custom Search Terms | Add Glossary Terms | Generate a Report | Generate Printed Documentation Forms and Frames Insert a Form | Add Form Radio Buttons | Add HTML Code to a Topic | Add a Form Check Box | Insert a Drop-Down Menu into a Form | Add a Multi-line Text Field to a Form | Add Form Submit and Reset Buttons | Name a Form and Set an Action | Import HTML Files | Create a Frameset | Modify Frameset Attributes | Link Topics into Frameset Regions Skins and Master Pages Create a Custom Skin | Customize the Search Highlight Color | Create a Master Page | Edit a Master Page