Online Helps: Copying, Renaming, Importing



RoboHelp is a bit finicky about copying, renaming, or importing the projects or files within those projects or from other projects.

Learning the Procedures

Moving projects. Experiment with changing the location of a project:

  1. Start a new project, or fire up an existing one, with three topics included.
  2. Create three topics with any sort of text (for example, Lorem ipsum.
  3. Save the project and compile it.
  4. Now, copy the entire project folder to some other location on your computer.
  5. In this new location, attempt to edit, save, and compile the project (double-click the .mpj file in the project folder). What happens?

Renaming projects and files. See if you can do the following:

  1. Start a new project, or fire up an existing one, with three topics included.
  2. Give one of the topics a new title—not the file name but the displayed title.
  3. Rename the file name of one of the topics in this project.
  4. Now, rename the entire project!

Importing projects and files. In RoboHelp, you can't just copy files into a project folder; you have to import them using RoboHelp:

  1. Start a new project, or fire up an existing one, with three topics included.
  2. Create three topics with any sort of text (for example, Lorem ipsum).
  3. Save the project and compile it.
  4. Bring in an HTML file from some other project: click File > Import > HTML
  5. Add this newly imported file to your TOC.

Importing Word files is not so easy, but try it:

  1. Find a Word file somewhere on your computer.
  2. Using the same project, import the Word file.
  3. Add this new file to the TOC, save, compile, and test the CHM. Watch the compilation messages; you'll probably see an error relating to the Word file. The CHM should work anyway; click the TOC link to the Word file.

Writing about the Procedures

Write quick-reference notes on these procedures.

Revising

Your instructor will review these quick-reference notes rapidly, requesting revisions if necessary and recording an "ok" in the gradebook when no revisions are needed.





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