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Create or open a project. See Creating Projects.

Opens a dialog, which lets you open any type of file supported by Doc-To-Help.

Opens the Save As Project dialog, which lets you save the active project under a different name and to a particular location.

Access the Tools menu, where you can do the following:

• Set options (startup options, default editors, and more). See Options Dialog.
• Deactivate Doc-To-Help.
• Check for updates.
• Compact your project, reducing its file size. See Compacting a Project File.
• Import and export project settings. See Importing and Exporting Project Settings.
• Access the build scheduler. See Scheduling Builds with the Build Scheduler.
• Convert older DOC files to DOCX. See Converting DOC Files to DOCX.

Doc-To-Help has several reports that will help you organize your work and keep track of topics and index elements. These reports can be viewed, saved, and printed for maximum flexibility. See Reports.

Team authoring is a source control feature that makes it possible for multiple authors to work together on a single project. Authors work on their own local copy of a project on their machine (called the working copy), while the master project (or the team project) is located on the organization's network or on a web server. Although the same project is made available to the entire team, one author's changes will not be overwritten by another author's changes. See About Team Authoring.

Access the Doc-To-Help documentation.

Closes the current project, but the application itself does not close.

Opens the Options dialog, which lets you set various options. See Options Dialog.

Select the target using the drop-down list. The icon above it will display the target type. See About Targets.

Build the current target. See Building Targets.

Rebuild the current target. When rebuilding a Help target, Doc-To-Help empties its output directory and recompiles the entire project. See Building Targets.

View the current Help target output.

If you have a Manual target type selected and have it configured to also generate a PDF (in the Help Targets dialog), you can click this button to view the generated PDF.

Publish the NetHelp Target to a SharePoint Document Library or SharePoint Wiki (only visible if a NetHelp target has been selected). See Publishing to SharePoint.

Cancel the current build.

View the Output Window, which displays the build log, as well as errors and unresolved links.

Select and edit the theme (skin) for the current help target. Click this button to open the Theme Preview. See About Themes.

This template controls the formatting of the target for Word source documents. Target template styles will override any matching styles in the Source template. See About Templates and Styles.

Add a new Word document to the project. See Adding, Renaming, and Removing Documents.

Add an existing Word document to the project. See Adding, Renaming, and Removing Documents.

Remove the selected document from the project.

Set a platform-based condition for the selected document. The document will be included in all of the target platform(s) selected. A platform includes all the targets that produce the output specified; Online Help, HTML Help, NetHelp, Printed Manual, etc. See About Conditions.

Set a target-based condition for the selected document. The document will be included in all the target(s) selected. See About Conditions.

Set an attribute-based condition for the selected document. The document will be included or excluded when creating conditional builds (e.g., internal or external.) Use the Attributes dialog to create custom attributes. See About Conditions. and Creating and Using Attributes.

The default template for new Word source documents added to the project. To change the look of the output, edit the target template. Styles that exist only in the source template will pass through to the target template. See About Templates and Styles.

Upload documents to a Microsoft® SharePoint® Library. See About SharePoint Integration.

Synchronize shared documents that were changed either locally, or in the Microsoft SharePoint Library.

Print the topics list or export it to Microsoft® Excel® or text (TXT). See Printing the Topic List and Exporting the Topic List.

View topics with or without the selected criteria.

Synchronize the Contents window pane with the selected topic. See Contents Window View (Doc-To-Help).

Display the index keywords for the selected topic only. See About Indexes.

Display the Related Topics window pane for the selected topic only. See Related Topics Window View (Doc-To-Help).

Set a platform-based condition for the selected topic. The topic will be included in all the target platform(s) selected. A platform includes all the targets that produce the output specified; Online Help, HTML Help, NetHelp, Printed Manual, etc. See About Conditions.

Set a target-based condition for the selected topic. The topic will be included in all the targets selected. See About Conditions.

Set an attribute-based condition for the selected topic. The topic will be included or excluded when creating conditional builds (e.g., internal or external). See About Conditions and Creating and Using Attributes.

This is the label that will appear above related (subtopic) links for the selected topic. See Managing Related Topics.

If this check box is selected, all subtopic links will be hidden in the selected parent topic. See Managing Related Topics.

Opens the Topic Properties dialog for the selected topic. See Viewing/Changing Topic Properties.

Opens the Attributes dialog where you can add or edit project attributes. Use these attributes to tag content for conditional builds. Attribute conditions can be applied to text, topics, and/or entire documents. See About Conditions and Creating and Using Attributes.

Opens the Windows dialog, where you can edit the default window types. Custom windows can also be created. See Setting the Window Display.

Opens the Project Styles dialog, where you can customize the source paragraph and character styles. These styles are from the source template. You can also add new styles. See About Project Styles and Topic Types.

Opens the Project Styles dialog, where you can add or edit topic types. A topic type is assigned to each topic. You can customize the default topic types or create new ones. See About Project Styles and Topic Types.

Opens the Variables window, where you can create and edit plain and rich content variables. See About Variables.

Under the Variables button, click this to open the Project Settings dialog. See Setting Project Properties.

Select the files that will be displayed in the Team Authoring window (options are: documents, auxiliary files, only pending changes).

Refresh the current view to see file status.

Get the latest version of the document from the repository.

Check document out of the repository.

Undo all changes to a document that has been checked out.

Check document into the repository.

Break connection with the server.