How to Insert a Manual TOC to a MS Word Technical Document
How to Insert a Manual TOC is a skill that may come in handy with some documentation projects. Did you know that your heading text in a MS Word document and the TOC text (that points at that heading) do not need to be identical? There’ll be times when you may not want MS Word…
Read MoreHow to Color a Continuum of Values in a MS Excel Data Range
© Ugur Akinci Imagine you have a continuum of values in a MS Excel range, like the student grades in a class. Here is how you can color each cell automatically so that at one look you can tell which grades are HOT and which are not. (1) Select the data (cell) range. In this…
Read MoreMS Excel Short Cut for Changing the width of an Excel column
Changing the width of an Excel column to accommodate all text in a single line is something I do frequently while working with MS Excel worksheets. After a while it gets tiresome to select Format > AutoFit Column Width from the ribbon all the time. So here is a wonderful Windows short cut that will…
Read MoreHow to Display the Contents Tab (TOC) in a Compiled Robohelp HTML Help File
Follow the directions in this post to display the Contents Tab (TOC) in a compiled Robohelp HTML Help File. If you compile a Robohelp .CHM (pronounced “chum”) HTML help file and do NOT see your CONTENTS tab (TOC) anywhere, don’t panic. There is actually a very simple reason why the CONTENTS tab does not display: you have…
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