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Specifying the Help Contents

Initially, Doc-To-Help derives the Help contents automatically based upon the hierarchy of topics in the project. Therefore, in order for a topic to be included in the Help contents, the paragraph style that defines it must have a numeric outline level.

To assign a numeric outline level to a paragraph style:

1.   On the Icon bar, click Project.

2.   Select the Paragraph Styles item from the left pane.

3.   Select the paragraph style to be edited from the right pane.

4.   In the property pane, change the Type property to a value between Level 1 and Level 9.

To modify the Help contents using the Project Editor, see Modifying the Help Contents.

If a project contains multiple source documents, the order in which they were added to the project determines the default order in which they are listed in the Help contents. Since this may not be the order you intended, you can rearrange it. Note that the order of topics in the table of contents can be customized at any time using the Contents toolbar.

To rearrange the order of the documents and therefore the top level Help topics contents:

1.   On the Icon bar, click Project.

2.   Choose Documents from the left pane.

3.   Choose the document you wish to move from the right pane.

4.   Change the Order property by pressing the Move Up or Move Down arrow located at the top of the documents property pane in the Documents toolbar.

You have two other options in addition to using the Move Up and Move Down arrows when changing the order of your documents:

Drag and Drop

1.   On the Icon bar, click Project.

2.   Select the Documents item from the left pane.

3.   Select the source document you wish to move.

4.   While holding the left mouse key, drag the document to the desired position within the document tree.

Cut and Paste

1.   On the Icon bar, click Project.

2.   Select the Documents item from the left pane.

3.   Right-click the source document you wish to move and select Cut from the context menu.

4.   Right-click the document to precede the document you are moving and select Paste from the context menu. The document you cut now follows this document in the tree.