Welcome to Help & Manual 4
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Changes Since Version 3
The Editor
File format
Unicode support
Text formatting
XML source code editor
Tables
Font size preview setting
Dynamic styles
Graphics and hotspots
Bullets and numbering
Hyperlink handling
Dead link highlighting
Mouseover hints
Videos and animations
Two-way live keyword index
Anchors with keywords
Comments and bookmarks
Embedded Topics
Import and export
RoboHelp® X5 conversion
Import functions
New output formats
Translation/localization support
Menus & Toolbars
Toolbars & keyboard shortcuts
Improved context menus
TOC selection, Drag & Drop
Multiselect in the TOC
Compile/print selected topics
Enhanced TOC Drag & Drop
Copy TOC to create links
Mouseover hints
Folders in Invisible Topics
Miscellaneous new features
Build options / include conditions
JavaScript popups
Spell checking
Find & replace images
Entering and editing HTML code
Breadcrumb trail navigation
Long topic IDs and anchors
Various minor improvements
Baggage files
Picture shortcuts
Introduction
About Help & Manual
Why Help & Manual?
Converting old projects
Getting help
Online information and links
How to buy Help & Manual
The User Interface
The Help & Manual workspace
Topic options
Keyboard Shortcuts
Customizing Help & Manual
Quick Start Tutorials
Create a Project
Enter and Edit Text
Use Styles
Add Topics
Organize the TOC
Insert Graphics
Insert a Table
Create Hyperlinks
Compile a Project
Tutorials and Templates
DHTML examples tutorial
Conditional output tutorial
Modular help systems tutorial
Pocket PC help template
Non-scrolling header template
Help & Manual help project template
Help & Manual help source code
SDL Trados INI file
Other templates and resources
Basic Working Procedures
Creating Projects
Choosing your help format
Converting .HM3 projects
Creating an empty new project
New project from a compiled HTML Help file
New project from HTML and plain text files
New project from Winhelp project source files
New project from a compiled Winhelp file
New project from a Word RTF file
New project from a H&M XML project file
New project from a RoboHelp® X5 project
Editing Project Properties
International languages setup
Defining the help viewer appearance
Importing Data into Existing Projects
Importing compiled HTML Help files
Importing HTML and plain text files
Merging HTML files into topics
Importing Winhelp project source files
Importing compiled Winhelp files
Importing Word RTF files
Importing H&M XML projects
Importing RoboHelp® X5 projects
Importing topics and merging projects
Creating and Editing Topics
Creating new topics
Setting up styles
Choosing a help window
Writing and formatting text
Selecting text and content
Spell checking
Copying, cutting and pasting
Searching for text, topics and referrers
Creating invisible topics
Creating popup topics
Using JavaScript popups
Exporting and importing topics
Comments and bookmarks
Special characters, lines and breaks
Printing topics
Editing XML source code
Managing Topics in the TOC
Assigning topic IDs
Assigning help context numbers
Changing topic IDs and context numbers
The TOC Toolbar
Editing the topic caption and header
Moving, cutting and pasting topics
Promoting and demoting topics
Multiple TOC entries for one topic
Using embedded topics
Changing the topic icon
Changing the topic status
Organizing invisible topics
Topic timestamps
Text Formatting and Styles
Styles introduction for H&M3 users
Formatting text manually
Using indents
Formatting text with styles
Defining styles
Editing styles
Style display in the Toolbar
Editor, help file and print styles
Image caption and comment styles
Copying styles from other projects
Styles and tables
Numbered and bulleted lists
Bulleted Lists
Numbered lists
Outline numbered lists
Adjusting list indents
Formatting list numbers
HTML list output format
Formatting lists with styles
Formatting program source code
Examples
Replacing Formatting and Styles
Introduction to style replacement
Font styles and formatting
Paragraph styles and formatting
Styling imported text
Links, Anchors, Macros, Scripts and HTML
Inserting topic links
Inserting Internet links
Inserting file links
Inserting script and macro links
Editing and formatting links
Anchors - jump targets
Linking to other projects and help files
Links and secondary windows
Inserting plain HTML code
Using Graphics
Inserting graphics and screenshots
Positioning graphics
Editing, resizing and hi-res PDF printing
Using the Impict graphics editor
Using the screen capture function
Using graphics as hyperlinks
Graphics with hotspots, macros and scripts
Finding and replacing graphics
Managing your graphics
Shortcuts for frequently-used graphics
Working with Tables
Inserting tables
Controlling column widths
Selecting and formatting cells and tables
Adding and deleting rows and columns
Splitting, merging and unmerging cells
Deleting the contents of cells
Converting tables to text
Indenting tables
Applying styles to tables
Nested tables
Using background graphics
Handling table borders
Toggles: Expanding Text and Images
Expanding section toggles
Expanding inline text toggles
Expanding image toggles
Toggle IDs
Editing and copying toggles
Formatting toggles with CSS
Expand All / Collapse All
Toggle troubleshooting
Updating old expanding sections
Printing topics containing toggles
Keywords and Indexes
Adding and editing keywords
Editing the index directly
Find and replace keywords
Managing keywords and indexes
Using keywords with anchors
Using A-keywords
Index section header separators
Testing Your Project
Using the reporting tool
Testing links and missing graphics
Searching for topics and referrers
Testing keywords
Configuring Your Output
Help Windows
HTML Help
Winhelp
Browser-based Help
Layout
Navigation
Full Text Search tricks
Adobe PDF and printed manuals
eBooks
XML
MS Word RTF
Visual Studio Help
Compiling Your Project
Microsoft help compilers
Publication checklist
Compiling
Compiling to XML
Distribution files
Changes since H&M 3
More Advanced Procedures
Flash Animations and Video
Inserting movies and animations
Inserting placeholder graphics
Previewing and snapshots
Editing the media HTML code
Support in output formats
Using OLE Objects
Inserting OLE objects
OLE examples
Using Context-Sensitive Help
Creating context-sensitive topics
Application calls to context-sensitive topics
Auto-generating context-sensitive topics
Formatted context popups in HTML Help
Context calls to Browser-based Help
Using Variables
Where you can use variables
Inserting variables in topics and headers
Inserting variables in other project locations
Editing, formatting and disabling variables
Find and replace variables
Global predefined variables
User-defined variables
Text variables in HTML templates
Text variables in PDF templates
Redefining variables for conditional output
Conditions and Customized Output
Using conditional output
Defining include options
Conditional text include options
Topic include options
Modular projects include options
Redefining variables
HTML template conditions
Templates and Secondary Windows
Templates for projects
Content templates for topics
PDF and print manual templates
HTML templates
eBook templates
Using secondary windows
Using external windows
Using HTML Templates
Editing HTML templates
The Topic Page templates
The Layout template for Browser Help
The TOC template for Browser Help
The Search template for Browser Help
The Index template for Browser Help
Variables in HTML templates
Conditional output in HTML templates
Graphics references
Referencing external files
Troubleshooting
Working with Modular Help Systems
Creating a modular project
Choosing the merge method
Managing modules in the TOC
Managing graphics in modules
Managing IDs and context numbers
Creating links between modules
Merging invisible topics
Compiling modular projects
Multiple browser-based projects
Command Line Options
Syntax reference
Basic command line options
Using include options
Output to multiple formats
Redefining variables
.INI and batch files
Using Baggage Files
Adding and referencing files
Graphics files
Removing and renaming Baggage files