Changing Your RTF Editor

If you want to change the RTF editor you are using after you have installed Help Author, you can do so using one of two methods:

nUse the Change button in the Help Project Editor Help file.

nEdit your WIN.INI file by hand and remove the current editor.

Using a Custom Macro to Change Your RTF Editor

Ordinarily, to change your default RTF editor you must edit the WIN.INI file and restart Windows. To save you that trouble, the Help Project Editor’s Help file contains a custom macro that does it for you.

To change your RTF editor using the custom Help macro

1.1.Open the Help Project Editor.

2.2.From the Help menu, choose Contents to open the Project Editor’s Help file.

Or press F1 to open the Help file.

3.3.Choose the topic “Changing Your Default RTF Editor” from the Help Contents screen.

4.4.Follow the instructions in the Help topic.

Changing Your RTF Editor by Hand

To change your default RTF editor by hand, you must edit the WIN.INI file.

To change your RTF editor by hand

1.1.Open the WIN.INI file in Notepad or some other text editor.

2.2.Go to the [EXTENSIONS] section.

3.3.Delete the filename following the rtf= option and type the new name (and full path if necessary) of the RTF editor you want to use.

Or delete the entire rtf= line from the WIN.INI file.

4.4.Save the WIN.INI file, and then exit the text editor.

5.5.Restart Windows.

6.6.After restarting Windows, restart the Help Project Editor.

If you typed a new editor in the WIN.INI file, your editor is ready to use. If you deleted the rtf= entry, you will be prompted to specify a new RTF editor when you choose the Edit File command.