A marquee is an area in a RoboHelp topic that displays a text message that scrolls horizontally across the screen. Believe it or not, the ability to add a marquee to your project has been available in RoboHelp for years… but maybe you just didn't know about it. Read on and you'll learn how to insert a marquee and how to control its properties.
Insert a Marquee
- Open a RoboHelp 7 topic
- Click in the topic where you would like to insert the marquee
- Choose Insert > HTML > Marquee
A box appears with a green, dashed border. This is the marquee. By default, the marquee is empty (unless you had selected text prior to inserting the marquee). - Type the text you would like to see in the marquee
- Choose View > View Item to preview the topic and the marquee
Notice that the marquee text scrolls across your page. You may or may not be happy with the speed of the scrolling text. You can change that easily enough.
- Close the preview
Change Marquee Properties
- Right-click within the marquee and choose Marquee Properties
The Marquee dialog box appears. Using the options available on the Marquee tab, you can change such marquee features as Direction, Speed and Behavior.
- After making your changes, click OK (if you want more information about any of the marquee features on any of the tabs in this dialog box, you can use the Help button)
- Choose View > View Item to preview the changes you have made to the marquee
Note: If you single source your RoboHelp project to a printed document, your marquees will be converted to text.
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