Help Author Mode is a setting in WinHelp that adds extra menus to the shortcut menu on help windows and also allows you to move through WinHelp topics using keyboard commands. In RoboHELP it is turned on using the RoboHELP Explorer using the View: Help Author Mode menu command.
Help Author Mode adds text on the title bar of
the Help topic and replaces the window title with a topic number. The
number below represents the 932d compiled topic in a help file.
Help Author Mode lets you navigate topics using the following keyboard commands. Simply open a WinHelp topic and press one of the keyboard commands below:
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Command |
Result |
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Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow |
Moves right one topic |
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Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow |
Moves left one topic |
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Ctrl + Shift + Home |
Move to first topic in Help file |
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Ctrl + Shift + End |
Moves to last topic in Help file |
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Ctrl + Shift + J |
Opens the Jump dialog box |
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The keyboard commands above allow you to step through topics in WinHelp. |
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Topic
Information and Ask On Hotspots
commands appear when you click a topic using your right mouse button.
Topic Information gives details about the Title ($) footnote, Entry Macros
(!), Window name, and Help file path and name.
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