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Subject:Re: Using Word to create help? From:"T.W. Smith" <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:47:52 -0400
RoboHelp is currently it's own authoring environment. It does not run atop Word.
WWP for Word has no requirements beyond those you'd need to be a power
user of MS Office. WWP for Word requires that you maintain your
content in MS Word.
HTH.
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:02:27 -0400, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
>
> Priscilla Yonemura wondered: <<I can't find any advice on using
> Microsoft Word to create help for a simple web application. And, yes,
> I'd love to use RoboHelp or RoboHTML, but the project owners insist I
> use Word.>>
>
> The project owners clearly don't know what they're talking about, since
> RoboHelp is nothing more than a layer of macros and custom programming
> that runs in close cooperation with Word. Moreover, it's easy to write
> and review the content in Word, then pour it into another application
> (e.g., RoboHTML) to generate help, though working that way forces you
> to do lots of rework with each release. For that matter, you can create
> WinHelp using Word plus RoboHelp, then open the help file in RoboHTML
> and convert it into an HTML help format.
>
> WebWorks Publisher (WWP) now works with Word, so that's another
> excellent alternative, though I've heard you need a very powerful
> computer to use it effectively with large projects. (Confirmation,
> anyone?)
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T.
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