Creating Index Keywords in a Project

Within your Doc-To-Help project, you can create index keywords and assign topics to them. You can also create an index automatically.

  1. In Doc-To-Help, open the Index and Groups window view.

  2. Click the Keywords button .
  3. In the Keywords pane, click the Add New Keyword button in the local toolbar.
  4. An editable keyword will be created, titled "New Keyword." Type the new keyword within the box.

  5. (Optional) To create a secondary keyword, select a keyword and click the Add Secondary Keyword button in the local toolbar.

    If a secondary keyword is assigned to a keyword, the primary keyword acts as a parent.

    Topics may be assigned to all keyword levels.

    Secondary keywords may be created several levels deep if you wish.

  6. (Optional) Keywords can be renamed or removed using the Rename or Remove Keyword buttons in the local toolbar.

  1. Create an index keyword.
  2. In the Keywords/Groups pane, select the keyword to highlight it.
  3. Drag a topic from the Topics window into the bottom half of the Keywords/Groups pane.

Note You may assign more than one topic to a keyword. This will open a selection dialog when the keyword is chosen from the index.

If you’d prefer, Doc-To-Help can create an index for you automatically, based on your topic types. From the Auto-Index drop-down list on the Project ribbon, choose the topic type(s) you’d like to include in your index (you can select one topic type at a time). The next time you build your target, topics with those topic properties will be included in the index. Topic types can be edited in the Project Styles dialog. See About Project Styles and Topic Types.

Note For a complete listing of options, see Index and Groups Window View (Doc-To-Help).

Note As an alternative to creating an index in the project, you can create an index by inserting keywords in your Word source document. See Creating Index Keywords in a Source Document.

Note You can also create links to index keywords. See Creating Links.

Note Any new keywords created using this method will also be added to the Index and Groups window pane in Doc-To-Help. You can create links to keywords by dragging and dropping a keyword from this window pane into your document. See Index and Groups Window View (Doc-To-Help).