How Start to Learn RoboHelp?

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Adobe RoboHelp is one of the coolest applications you’ll ever use as a technical communicator. It’s like the “Swiss army knife” of document-creation software. I’ve been using for almost 20 years now and I’m still busy discovering different options and capabilities every time I use it.
You can create not only HTML help files with it but also PDF documents and a lot more.
RoboHelp is not free but here is the good news: you can download a free trial copy From Adobe Robohelp’s website and put it through its paces for 4 weeks:
http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp.html
Yet the question is, how to make the best of those 30 days?
Since one cannot learn everything about RoboHelp during those 4 weeks, what should we focus on during the trial period?
Here is a list of 9 items that I suggest you focus on during the trial period:

  1. Creating original content from scratch inside RH’s editing pane.
  2. Importing Word and FrameMaker files.
  3. Importing FrameMaker BOOKS as a whole instead of single files.
  4. Creating, editing, and using MASTER PAGES.
  5. Creating, editing, and using variables.
  6. Creating, editing, and using Anchored Frames.
  7. Creating, editing, and using Conditional Text tags.
  8. Creating and editing TOCs and Indexes.
  9. Learning how to generate different OUTPUT formats from the same set of source files.

Enjoy!