Re: Creating a help file from Excel

Subject: Re: Creating a help file from Excel
From: Julian Tudorache <julian -at- NYCMAIL -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 14:22:15 -0400

Bring chunks of the table into Word. Tag one column as Heading 1. Let Robohelp's
online coversion make all Heading Ones into topic titles. Index the new help
file (let Robohelp make links to all topics.)

Hope this helps

Julian Tudorache

Taylor, Steve wrote:

> Ok folks, I need some ideas on this one. I was just handed a project to
> develop a help file from a spreadsheet. This spreadsheet (Excel 97) contains
> 9500 definitions. Column one contains the term, column 2 contains any
> optional information, and column three contains the definition. And of
> course, there are 9,500 rows...
>
> They basically want a searchable glossary. I think it would work better as
> an Access database.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Steve Taylor
> Consultant for Technical Directions, Inc.
> On location at:
> Allegiance Telecom, Inc.
> Dallas, TX
> (214) 853-7182
> steve -dot- taylor -at- allegiancetelecom -dot- com
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