Tools for creating a help file

[Bob Sneidar]

http://www.ehow.com/how_5946398_create-training-manual-word.html

On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Pete wrote:

> Folks,
> Still playing around with different formats for this.
> 
> One possible format is the one used by the Datagrid reference manual.  It's
> a pdf file including a navigation pane on the left with
> expandable/collapsible entries; clicking on an entry goes directly to the
> associated page.  Pretty sure this is a built in feature of pdf files, but
> wondering if there is a way to create that type of format from a standard
> word processing program as opposed to purchasing Acrobat.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pete
> 
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Colin and Phil for the ScreenSteps recommendation.  I'll definitely
>> take a look.
>> Pete
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> You should look at ScreenSteps:
>>> 
>>> http://www.bluemangolearning.com/screensteps/
>>> 
>>> In addition to being a very good way to prepare documentation, the tool
>>> was created with LiveCode.
>>> 
>>> It can export to Word, PDF, and HTML. With PDF you can use a LiveCode
>>> player object and set the filename of the player to the path to the PDF,
>>> and then set the currenttime of the player to go forward and backward
>>> through the pages.
>>> 
>>> 
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