About Topics
To make your Word document more useful for online output, it is broken up into smaller elements called "topics," which are based on the heading styles in the document. After you create a Doc-To-Help project and build some output from it
Example
Example
The following shows a project containing two Word documents, one that contains the main content and a second being used as a glossary. No targets in this project have been generated yet. Therefore, no topics exist right now.
After building a target, notice that the Topics panel is populated, based on the heading styles in the Word source document. In this case, multiple topics were created from the two source documents. It also shows the structure of the table of contents that will be created in the output.
The Contents window view in the Doc-To-Help Project panel in Word is also populated. You can use the Contents view in the Doc-To-Help Project panel to quickly view the structure of the document, jump to locations in the source document, or create links.
Windows
Topics can be managed a number of ways in Doc-To-Help. This includes specifying topic properties and conditions, as well as creating indexes and tables of contents.
The primary location for working with topics is the Topics window.
The Topics window works along with
Tasks Associated With Topics
Following are the primary tasks associated with topics:
- Add, Rename, and Delete Topics may be added, renamed, and deleted from a Word document using the Doc-To-Help ribbon.
- Assign Topics to Index Keywords Within your Doc-To-Help project, you can create index keywords and assign topics to them.
- Create Custom Tables of Contents You can create a custom table of contents (you can even have different TOCs for different targets).
- Print or Export Topic List You may print your entire topic list, and also export it to Microsoft® Excel® or text (TXT) if you wish.
- Set D2HML Topic Properties Specific topic properties may be set using D2HML.
- View and Change Topic Properties The properties of specific topics—for example, the topic title and type (conceptual, procedural, etc.), and condition—may be reviewed and edited.