IMPORTING WORD TO ROBOHELP 8

Adobe Robohelp is a Help Authoring Tool (HAT). It is used to create help file for desktop or web-based applications. You can author your own content, track and manage project file and build up navigation such as links, table of contents, indexes and browser sequences.

IMPORTING A WORD DOCUMENT TO ROBOHELP:

You can import a word document to robohelp and this can be converted to chm and HTML formats. This section will illustrate the step by step procedure for importing a word document to robohelp.

Click on “File” menu, select “New” option and select “Project” to create a new project as shown below.

 

The following window appears.

 

In the “New” tab select “Blank Project”. Click on “Import” tab.

Select the word document to be imported.

As soon as the file is selected, the “Content Settings” dialog box appears as shown below.

 

Check the following options; Convert Table of Contents, Convert Index and Convert Glossary; this will enable you to convert the word document content settings exactly to robohelp.

Click on “Next” button and the following window appears.

Click on “Edit” button to edit the conversion settings for the word document.

The “Conversion Settings” screen appears as shown below.

Click on “Paragraph” option. You will find the document headings that you had used in word document.

The heading names appears as “Heading 1”, “Heading 2” and “Heading 3”.

Select the heading and the page appears as shown below.

Select the “Pagination” option. This will create a separate new page/link for each “Heading 1”. Similarly assign pagination for the other two headings.

Click on “Other Settings” option and the window appears as shown below.

Check the options “Convert Header” and “Convert Footer” to convert the header and footer settings of word to robohelp.

Click on “OK” button. 

Then click on “Finish” button.

The settings chosen by you will get processed and the file getting imported appears in a pop up window as shown below.

Click on “Close” button. Now the word document contents are available in robohelp. In the “Project Manager” pod, you can view your project file under the HTML files folder. Click on the folder to view file content.

Make the required changes in the content if any. In order to convert the file to html format (default output format), you need to generate the file.

Click on “Generate Primary Layout” symbol in the tools ribbon as shown below.

When the file gets compiled the following message appears as shown below saying that the HTML help file is built successfully.

Click on “View Result” button to view the output file.