Adding New Topics

When you create a Help topic file, you add all the topics that you want included in the build of the Help file.

To add a topic to the Help topic file

1.1.From the Insert menu, choose Topic.

The Insert Topic dialog box appears. The text boxes in the dialog box represent the topic footnotes supported by the Help compiler.

For an explanation of each of the entries in this dialog box, see Chapter 6, “Creating Topics.”

2.2.In the Title box, type the title that you want to give this topic.

3.3.In the Context String box, type the context string that you want to assign to this topic.

4.4.In the Keywords box, type the keywords that you want users to use to find this topic in a keyword search.

Keywords must be entered in this text box exactly as they would be entered in a footnote window. You must separate each keyword with a semicolon.

5.5.In the Browse Sequence box, type the list name and/or sequence number if this topic is to be included in a browse sequence.

6.6.In the Build Tag box, type the build tags you want to assign to this topic, if you are using build tags. You must separate each build tag with a semicolon.

7.7.In the Entry Macro box, type the macro string that you want Windows Help to execute when the user jumps to this topic.

8.8.In the Comment box, type any optional comments that you want to include with this topic.

These comments are ignored by the Help compiler.

9.9.Choose OK.

Or if you want to add the new topic before the current topic, clear the Place New Topic At End Of File check box, and then choose OK.

Note If you clear this check box, the template adds the new topic immediately before the current topic. (The current topic is the topic where the insertion point is located, even if the insertion point is at the beginning of the file.) If this is the first topic you are adding to the file, no page break is inserted after the topic information.