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The current version of Help & Manual (4.31) includes an updated version of the Delphi Wizards for context-sensitive help. You can use the D2006 packages of EHS Suite for D2007. The binaries are fully compatible.

Hi Sue,

This is already possible. If you select the "Highlight changed topics" check box in the Project Synch dialog new topics will also be highlighted in aqua in the TOC and/or the Invisible Topics section. The text in the help needs to be updated.

Patrick,

Thanks for the note but there's nothing I can do about it, it looks like a forum software glitch. The link itself is OK, what is happening is that only part of the link is being displayed on the summary page. Kismet...

Joe, All the variables in your project can be used in your PDF templates but they must be typed in manually. Only the variables specific to the PDF template are displayed in the selection lists in the Print Manual Designer. To use the <%VERSION%> variable do this: Go to Project > Project Properties ...

How links to Office files are handled depends on what browser the user is using and how Windows is configured on the user's computer. All browsers except Microsoft Internet Explorer will open a Powerpoint file in Powerpoint, an Excel file in Excel and a Word file in Word. By default, Internet Explor...

Hi "Ohjoy", The header is an essential part of most of the output formats supported by Help & Manual; if you don't use it you will make your documentation a lot less useful. However, if you want to create a topic without a header there are two options: Either you can just delete the te...

You can assign different templates for generating PDFs and for printing user manuals. The template for printing is assigned directly in the Print or Print Preview dialog -- select it with the [...] button in the Print Manual Template: field, and then you can also edit it directly by clicking on the ...

Hi Michelle, To really figure out what is going on it would be necessary to have a look at both your project file and your manual file, everything else I could say would be guesswork. It might have something to do with "keep with next" settings in paragraphs preceding the page breaks, it m...

so it should work okay if I leave the style the same but make equivalent manual formatting changes, right? That should be OK -- what is important is that there is no "break" of any kind between the elements. You can check this by running through the text with the cursor and watching the s...

Brian, If all your files are in the same folder then you don't need any path information at all -- you should be able to call the CHM files with their names only. Note that you may have to register them during the installation process to make it work because in addition to the relative path bug the ...

Hi Lee, Could you mail your project to support? Please pack just the .HMX file (no graphics, no other files) in a ZIP or RAR archive (necessary to prevent files from being stripped by some mail providers) and mail it to support AT ec-software.com (replace the AT with @). Please include a brief descr...

Dean, Empty paragraphs are used to create space so they always have the full height of the paragraph. If adding an empty paragraph increases the height of your entire page enough so that it extends beyond the page boundary then it is quite possible that the blank paragraph will be placed on a page o...

Hi Debbie,

There is no shortcut for repeating the last action but you can define shortcuts for most of the menu functions available in the program, including inserting table rows. Go to Tools > Customize > Shortcuts.

PS: If you want to link a TOC item to an external topic in another folder you can also do this with an absolute path and the ms-its: protocol. To do this select Topics > Insert Item, choose the "Link to a WWW address" option and enter your path with the following syntax: ms-its:E:\Path\he...

Hmm... Now I can reproduce it. There's nothing wrong with the template, the problem is that the <IF_TOPIC_HEADER> condition down at the bottom of the template is not actually excluding all of the script code. This is being caused by the > character inside the JavaScript code: It is valid JS code but...