What's that you say? You've never, ever made text bold? Well then, stand back and I'll teach you the trick. First, select some text. Now, click the "B" tool in any of the programs mentioned above. Go ahead, look around and you'll find that pesky "B" tool. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guarantee that clicking the "B" tool will make your selected text bold. Look at me... I'm the second coming of Joe Willie! There's your cool trick of the week. Enjoy.
Of course, if you're a RoboHelp developer, you know that making text appear bold isn't as easy as clicking the "B" tool. Why? There isn't a "B" tool. Silly me, it's a "T" tool.
Granted, it's a thicker "T" than the "T" tool right next to it (which is the "Italic" tool... I bet you were thinking that you'd find the standard "I" tool for italic, but nooooo! And don't get me started on the missing "U" tool!)
So that's the bad news in RoboHelp 8... the tools on the toolbars don't necessarily look the way you're used to. However, there is very good news indeed... you can easily customize the look of any tool on RoboHelp's toolbars (you can make your own toolbars too). Want to learn how to customize the tools? Read on...
Start RoboHelp 8 and choose View > Toolbars > Customize to display the Customize dialog box. While this dialog box is open, you can add or remove commands from any toolbar and you can customize the look of any tool.
Right-click the tool you'd like to customize, choose Change Button Image and then select an image you'd like to use.
Your button will quickly show your change (and its new attitude).
Of course, if you want to go hog-wild (and you have superior drawing skills), right-click the button and choose Edit Button Image. The resulting Button Editor will open offering you more opportunities to customize the button than you might have hoped for.
And finally, I couldn't close this week's article without a helpful tip should you have "button regret" and long for the good old days and your simple, yet elegant "T" tool. With the Customize dialog box open, right-click any edited button and choose Reset to remove your button edits.
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And then your style dropdown and various others will go blank! Sorry but there is a bug waiting to be fixed.
Avoid this until then.
Posted by: Peter Grainge | September 02, 2009 at 03:27 PM
You should post the B, I and U images so folks could copy them from here and paste into RoboHelp.
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1363391541 | September 02, 2009 at 05:33 PM