Creating a help file that looks like Word 2007's
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I'm not sure where to post this question so I'll risk putting it here and hope it gets moved to the correct area. I am a technical writer and I use this antiquated program called RoboHelp x5. My company may or may not upgrade to something else in the future. My company develops both web-based and stand alone apps and I'm responsible for manuals and help files. The problem is they want me to develop something that has the look and feel of the Word or Outlook 2007 help file AND make it contextual for a web application. I have the file created (a rough draft can be viewed here http://work.seoulborn.com/[^]) As you can see it formatted in the traditional robohelp output. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it into the format my company requests. I've tried using some trial versions of updated help authoring tools but none of them give the clean no frills look that my company is wanting. Do any of you have any suggestions?:sigh: Sandra ~ The road is straight, it's the journey that's twisted. ~
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I'm not sure where to post this question so I'll risk putting it here and hope it gets moved to the correct area. I am a technical writer and I use this antiquated program called RoboHelp x5. My company may or may not upgrade to something else in the future. My company develops both web-based and stand alone apps and I'm responsible for manuals and help files. The problem is they want me to develop something that has the look and feel of the Word or Outlook 2007 help file AND make it contextual for a web application. I have the file created (a rough draft can be viewed here http://work.seoulborn.com/[^]) As you can see it formatted in the traditional robohelp output. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it into the format my company requests. I've tried using some trial versions of updated help authoring tools but none of them give the clean no frills look that my company is wanting. Do any of you have any suggestions?:sigh: Sandra ~ The road is straight, it's the journey that's twisted. ~
Seoulborn wrote:
The problem is they want me to develop something that has the look and feel of the Word or Outlook 2007 help file AND make it contextual for a web application.
Are they wanting a .chm file?
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Seoulborn wrote:
The problem is they want me to develop something that has the look and feel of the Word or Outlook 2007 help file AND make it contextual for a web application.
Are they wanting a .chm file?
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
No they are wanting it to be exactly like the Office 2007 type or Vista type online help file. Which from what I can tell is really just a mini-web browser...but I can't produce something like that with RoboHelp x5. I downloaded the trial of MadCap's Flare and it doesn't quite produce it either...maybe if I had time to learn the interface and could produce legible out put...but I don't have that kind of time for something they wanted yesterday.
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No they are wanting it to be exactly like the Office 2007 type or Vista type online help file. Which from what I can tell is really just a mini-web browser...but I can't produce something like that with RoboHelp x5. I downloaded the trial of MadCap's Flare and it doesn't quite produce it either...maybe if I had time to learn the interface and could produce legible out put...but I don't have that kind of time for something they wanted yesterday.
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Maybe this will help? Microsoft HTML Help 1.4 SDK[^]
Mike Poz
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I'm not sure where to post this question so I'll risk putting it here and hope it gets moved to the correct area. I am a technical writer and I use this antiquated program called RoboHelp x5. My company may or may not upgrade to something else in the future. My company develops both web-based and stand alone apps and I'm responsible for manuals and help files. The problem is they want me to develop something that has the look and feel of the Word or Outlook 2007 help file AND make it contextual for a web application. I have the file created (a rough draft can be viewed here http://work.seoulborn.com/[^]) As you can see it formatted in the traditional robohelp output. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it into the format my company requests. I've tried using some trial versions of updated help authoring tools but none of them give the clean no frills look that my company is wanting. Do any of you have any suggestions?:sigh: Sandra ~ The road is straight, it's the journey that's twisted. ~
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb825992.aspx might help you.
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http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb825992.aspx might help you.