Creating and Deleting Targets

In Doc-To-Help, targets are built to produce the final output of your project. You can generate several types of output with Doc-To-Help. See Targets and Output Types.

The Help Targets dialog is used to specify the targets that you would like to create and specify key settings for each output. You may create more than one output of a specific type (e.g., you could have two different HTML Help outputs, one for "Administrator HTML Help" and one for "Manager HTML Help"). Simply add those targets to the list and configure each as you wish. To make the content in each unique, use conditional text and variables. See Conditions and Variables.

  1. In Word, click the Target Properties button on the Target ribbon. The Help Targets dialog opens.
  2. In the box on the left, click Add New Target, and from the drop-down list, select the desired target type. The Add New Target dialog opens.
  3. Enter the new target name and choose to either use the default target properties, or copy the properties from an existing target.
  4. Click OK. The new target is added to the list. The target can be further customized by editing the fields.

After creating a target, you can build output for it. You can build output from the Doc-To-Help application or from Word. See Building Targets.

  1. In Word, click the Target Properties button on the Target ribbon. The Help Targets dialog opens.
  2. In the box on the left, select the target you want to delete and click Remove Target.