Teach Yourself RoboHELP 7 Classic Edition (2nd edition - revised)

Editorial Review:

Teach Yourself RoboHELP provides beginning RoboHELP users with a firm foundation in the mechanics of using the tool and practical advice for good help authoring. You will learn how to create not just a help system, but a user-friendly one. Written by experienced help authors who are also certified RoboHELP instructors, the book is designed with both "big picture" and detail-oriented learners in mind. The first half of the book is a "Quick Start" overview, in which you can learn the basics and create a sample project in as little as a day. The second half, "Digging Down", covers the material in more depth. Numerous graphics and screenshots illustrate the text. Throughout the book, the authors include tips and cautions. "What if?" sections anticipate common beginning problems and help you troubleshoot them on the spot. Each unit concludes with a "What you've done" review and a "What's next" preview of the next unit. An enclosed CD-ROM contains all files referenced ! in the book so you can build the sample project as you progress. The CD-ROM also contains partially completed projects matching the "Quick Start" stages, so you can compare work or simply start the project at any step along the way. Teach Yourself RoboHELP is suitable for individual use or for classroom instruction. Registered owners of the current edition may upgrade to subsequent editions of Teach Yourself RoboHELP at a reduced price.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Great help for a complete RoboHelp novice:

I am an ex-programmer, and I worried that this text would be too simplistic for me -- but it wasn't. It has problems in the exercizes but they weren't hard to see and correct for -- the book needs a careful test. I like the way the tutorial weaves in information on help writing, e.g. discussing why there are different window types as it teaches you how to create them. The ratio between hands-on work and reading was good. I'm glad I bought this book rather than paying for a class.

Effective & entertaining w/insider tips--just right for me.:

You don't often find an effective training manual that is as entertaining as this one. Yes, it taught me how to create help files using RoboHelp with the usual point-and-click insructions, screen shots, and CD sample files, but what I really liked was feeling like the authors were giving me insider tips from real-world experience-not just the typical "this product is wonderful" stuff from the software company. I was afraid I was the only one who who felt stymied over certain issues, but they actually had... more info

Some Good Info... But Hard To Follow:

I have mixed feelings about this book. It has some good information, but a lot of it is technical mumbo jumbo that, frankly, I couldn't care less about. What I really needed was to create a help project quickly. I can't say that this book helped me all that much. I'd say that the user manual that came with my software (for free) did more for me than this book.

The book's cover is terrible. It looks like it was designed by an amateur. There are missing pictures and errors (I guess they are typos)... more info

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