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WritePoint Resource Center

Next RoboHelp Training Course: May 16 - 17, 2005. Register now: seminars@writepoint.com

Welcome to the WritePoint Resource Center. This page began with all sorts of favorite bookmarks that we've saved over time. Please forward your favorite reference sites to us and we'll be happy to add them to this page.

In addition to providing ongoing online help consultation, WritePoint also provides training courses, help development and help authoring services.

WritePoint Word-Related Presentations:

• Word Design Principles: About Templates, Styles, TOC and Index functionality in Microsoft Word. 

WritePoint Help-Related Articles and Presentations:

• Showing some Flash, some Skin and some "Captive-ation" (Captivate Demo showing Macromedia's FlashHelp, WebHelp and Captivate), as presented at a recent STC convention.

• Wonderful World of WebHelp (Presentation at RoboHelp-Israel Group, Tel Aviv).

• About Localization (coming soon)

• About the WebHelp About box

• Help Conversion Checklist

• Comparing Help Formats (Quick Overview)

• Tips for Quickly Making a Glossary (WinHelp or RoboHelp for Word -> HTML-based)

Help Authoring Links:

• RoboHelp Community Forums (need to register to participate)

• Help Authoring Tools and Techniques (HATT): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HATT 

• Techshoret (Israeli Tech. Writer email list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techshoret 

• KeyWorks Software (tools for online help development): http://www.keyworks.net/ 

• The HelpWare Group: http://www.helpware.net/

• HelpStuff: http://www.helpstuff.com/

• Knopf Online: http://www.knopf.com

Help Authoring Tool (HAT) Vendors

• Macromedia's RoboHelp: www.macromedia.com

• AuthorIT Software's AuthorIT: www.authorit.com

• Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher: www.quadralay.com

• Help Magician: www.helpmagician.com

• Helen (for JavaHelp): http://www.software7.biz/

Context-Sensitive Help Resources

• Context-Sensitive Help Concepts (Don Lammers): http://tinyurl.com/6grec

• Microsoft Resources: http://tinyurl.com/585n2

• Macromedia article: http://tinyurl.com/3w7zf

• For Visual Basic applications: http://www.helpscribble.com/vb.html

• For Notes/Domino 6 applications: http://tinyurl.com/5yykg

• With FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher: http://tinyurl.com/63k4a

• In DocBook documents: http://tinyurl.com/3t6t8

WinHelp Solutions:

• Fixing Auto-Numbering Problems (solution by Knopf Online): http://www.knopf.com/tips/autonumber.html 

• Using Table Cell Borders and Shading in WinHelp (solution by Knopf Online): http://www.knopf.com/tips/tableborders.html