by Kevin Siegel
How many times have you found yourself adding the same information to your RoboHelp topics over and over again. Maybe it's the name of your CEO. Maybe it's your corporation's "mother paragraph" (the paragraph that tells customers what your company is all about).
Believe it or not, RoboHelp has the ability to replace a few characters you might type on your keyboard (such as the letters zzz) with a phrase, sentence… even multiple sentences). All you need to do is put RoboHelp's AutoCorrect feature on the job.
- Open any of your project topics.
- Choose Tools > Spelling Options and select the AutoCorrect tab.
- In the Replace field, type some text (such as the letters zzz).
- In the With field, type the text you would like to appear should you type the letters in the Replace field (in the example below, I typed three sentences into the With field.
- Click the Add button.
- Click the OK button.
- Open any topic, press your [spacebar] and then type the letters you typed into the Replace field (such as zzz).
- Press [spacebar] one final time and BAM! The letters have been replaced by whatever you typed in the Replace field.
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So it’s just like AutoCorrect for Word, right? I know people who swear by it, but for me just about every project involves a different software application – or at least a different module. Nice to see a program paying attention to the little “duh” details that so many programs completely whiff on.
So it’s just like AutoCorrect for Word, right? I know people who swear by it, but for me just about every project involves a different software application – or at least a different module. Nice to see a program paying attention to the little “duh” details that so many programs completely whiff on.
So it’s just like AutoCorrect for Word, right? I know people who swear by it, but for me just about every project involves a different software application – or at least a different module. Nice to see a program paying attention to the little “duh” details that so many programs completely whiff on.