Compiled HTML Help from MS Word

[dbsfinsys]

Hello

Please forgive any ignorance, but this my first time on this newsgroup and
I'm relatively new to the subject.

I'm looking into authoring compiled html help files (i.e. .chm) using our
Microsoft Word user guides as the source.

I would appreciate any help or advice as to the best way of doing this. For
example, is there a good application available to buy or is a there a
cheaper more effective solution? We would prefer it if the operation from
Word document to compiled HTML was as automated as possible, but then some
manual operation would not be a problem if a cheaper solution was available.

Thanks in advance,
Peter Lunn
UK

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[Ulrich Kulle [DE]]

Hi Peter,

no problem - you are welcome!
I think, there are some solutions for you.

1. You can buy a big tools (DOC-TO-HELP $$$) and convert your DOC to
HTMLHelp (see:
http://www.componentone.com/) or any other professional tool
2. if you have structured information with headlines inside your
documentation like 1., 1.1, 1.2, 2., 2.1, 2.2, etc. you build folders for
each topic, split your document and save each part as "HTML". You have to
learn a bit about another big tool (FAR=shareware $$ see:
http://www.helpware.net ) and transform it to HTML.
3. You save parts of your DOC text to TXT and put it to FRONTPAGE and tahe
FAR (see 2.)

Best regards
Ulli
Germany Hannover
onlin...@gmx.de,

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[Rob Chandler [MVP]]

If you are starting from Word you will be making life
slightly difficult for yourself. Best to buy a good HTML
editor. See http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#wordhtml

As Ulli says, once you have your HTML documents you can
use a tool like FAR (its a cheap tool with lots features) to
create a HH.

Or maybe you like the full HAT (Help Authoring Tool).
Then you by RoboHelp, DOC-TO-HELP etc and play big money :-)

Cheers
Rob

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[dbsfinsys]

Hi Ulli

Thanks very much for taking the time to answer my post.

I have heard of and taken a look at Doc-to-Help by Component One, but
haven't seen FAR before. I will check it out.

From your own point of view, what is the best in terms of a balance between
cost and what they do?

Peter

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[dbsfinsys]

Thanks Rob for your answer.

Yes indeed FAR looks great - and great value too. We specifically want to be
able to author HTML from our User Guides produced in Word and do it in as
automated way as possible. Having just tried out an evaluation of RoboHelp
Office it seems to do this quite well but as you say "big money".

I've also looked at the HTML filters on the link you gave and whilst they
seem to offer to clean up the HTML produced, what we really want to do be
able to split the HTML document down into more usable sections or pages,
whereas it seems that using Word to save as HTML only give the option to
save the whole document. In practice this could result in having a very long
HTML page.

Are there any tools that will automate this other than RoboHelp?

Thanks again for your help,
Peter

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[Stefan Marchhart]

take a look at www.dokay.de

Stefan

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[dbsfinsys]

Thanks Stefan

I've downloaded a copy and will take a look. Shame though that the site is
all in German - sadly a failing of English people like me who expect
everyone else to speak our language! ;-)

Thanks again,
Peter

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