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When you write topics in Doc-To-Help’s content editor, we want you to be able to focus on
the content itself, so Doc-To-Help does a number of things for you behind the scenes.
Each topic that you want to create is its own document. The documents are stacked in
a hierarchy, with top level topics on top, and subtopics slotted underneath. The hierarchy
in the Contents pane mirrors the hierarchy in the Documents pane.
When I build my outputs, the hierarchy is the same in the table of contents
All the content that’s in your documents – including screen shots – is in your
outputs, broken down by topic and organized into a table of contents.
We understand that all projects and documents are living projects and documents, they change
over time. If you want to add content over time, you would just need to add documents
and slot them where you want them to go in the hierarchy.
Let’s say I want to add instructions for Lotus Notes. I would click the New Document
button, choose HTML5, name the document, and decide if I want it to be a child or sibling
of the selected document
If I make it a Sibling, it is slotted directly underneath the selected document, in the same
level in the hierarchy
If I make it a Child document
it will be placed directly underneath the selected document, one level lower in the
hierarchy
The new topics are mirrored in the Contents pane
And in the table of contents of your outputs once you build. I’ll build a PDF to show
the updates.
Doc-To-Help added a cover page and Contents section to my PDF for me, so that I didn’t
need to worry about adding it while I was writing my topics. We tried to make structuring
and writing your topics as simple and straightforward as possible, so that you can focus on the
content itself. To learn more and download a free trial, go
to DocToHelp.com. I’m Brad Keller. Thanks for watching and thanks for choosing Doc-To-Help.