RoboHELP 7 for Dummies (Paperback)

by James G. Meade (Author) "Welcome to RoboHELP 7 - a fancy, state-of-the-art, fun-to-use Help authoring environment..." (more)
Key Phrases: final help file, graphics locator, baggage files, Index Designer, Smart Index Wizard, Single Source (more...)

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Product Description

Get the help you need with RoboHELP Office -- the industry standard in help authoring. If you're considering buying this book, you probably already know that help authoring is an unusual hybrid of standard writing, Web page creation, graphic arts, and even some programming. Thus, you have to expect an application that's a hybrid in itself. Let RoboHELP 7 For Dummies tame this foreign beast for you!

Master the basics and walk through the creation of a mock help page before jumping into the particulars. Discover how to give your help section spark with stylish graphics, attention-getting typefaces, and logical links. Then discover the tricks to making your help section accessible with a thorough table of contents and a well-illustrated index.

You'll become your own project manager, but not before discovering all the ins and outs of the RoboHELP Project Manager, the controls that make your help section whole. Use hotspots and other dynamic features to create special effects in your RoboHELP HTML, while utilizing style sheets options for a variety of timesaving tasks. And if you're daring, check out the chapter on programming to help you find the super scripts that can give your help topics extra power.

With RoboHELP 7 For Dummies, you get the kind of friendly, accessible advice that can turn a bear of a project into beautiful, error-free help tool.

About the Author

Jim Meade likes to think of himself as a dummy. He started out that way as a child and likes to be true to his roots. Nevertheless, he is a dummy who has written an awful lot of computer books -- 16 so far -- including Word Pro® For Windows® 95 For Dummies® and its popular predecessor Ami Pro® For Dummies®(both published by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.). Jim's other leading titles include Using PowerPoint and Using Ami Pro.

A former in-house writer with Digital Equipment Corporation, Meade founded his own writing enterprise, Meade Ink, Inc., in 1984. Jim's company is based in Fairfield, Iowa, and provides writing services to companies such as DEC, Lotus, and MCI. As a magazine writer as well as a book author, Jim has contributed to PC Magazine and dozens of trade magazines, including Data Communications and HR Magazine (in which he writes regular software reviews).

He coaches eighth-grade basketball but would rather play, and he regrets rules stipulating that, to play at that level, you have to be in eighth grade.

Product Details

• Paperback: 374 pages
• Publisher: Hungry Minds; Pap/Cdr edition (August 11, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764505602
• ISBN-13: 978-0764505607
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #800,420 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Does the job!, August 10, 2000

By	Garbonzo "rr martin fan" (Corona, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This book is concise and gets you up to speed with RoboHELP quickly. As a technical writer that is just starting out, I needed a book that would teach me enough about RoboHELP so that I could add it to my resume with confidence. This book accomplishes this task quite well.

By the end of the first chapter, I already felt confident creating projects, topics, and links. This is the core of RoboHELP.

I advise you to read several chapters before installing the demo version of RoboHELP HTML as it is timed to last only 15 days. I had almost finished the book, but the demo time had run out. I just called Blue-Sky (makers of Robohelp) and they gladly sent me another 15 day trial disk. :) Don't be afraid to ask!

Great book and highly recommended. Skip the more complex ones, you don't need it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Old version, not for Adobe's Robohelp 7, November 8, 2007

By	Redbaroness "Redbaroness" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

Just a friendly warning that this is for the old 1998 version and not the version that started shipping in 2007.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book !, June 7, 2000

By A Customer

RoboHELP for Dummies does an excellent job of teaching. Whether you are just learning RoboHelp or are an experienced user, this book will certainly come in handy. I am moving up in my company and needed to learn RoboHelp fast. This book taught me everything I needed to know real fast and was straight forward. There is no useless information in this book that will cause you to get bored or confused when reading it.