Month: January 2023

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Adobe RoboHelp: Microcontent

One of the most powerful features in any Help System is Search. In my experience, more people will use the Search feature to quickly try to find answers to questions than will use the Table of Contents or Index combined.

Search has been an essential part of RoboHelp's output for years. If a searched word is contained within a topic, and the topic is included or referenced on the TOC, the topic will be shown to the user. However, it's possible to use RoboHelp Microcontent feature and allow the user to pose questions to the Search feature using full sentences. You can prepare for those questions and create short bursts of information–microcontent–and have that content appear onscreen.

Here a quick video that shows Microcontent in action.

And if you're looking for vILT classes on RoboHelp, look no further!

 

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Adobe Captivate Mac: Fix the Missing Themes Error

I was mentoring a client on Adobe Captivate for the Mac. She received the following theme files error message when starting Captivate 2019.

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According to Adobe support, here is the fix:

  1. Close Captivate and all other Adobe applications.
  2. Choose Go > Applications.
  3. Open the Adobe Captivate 2019 folder.
  4. Open Gallery > Layouts > 11_8 > En_US.
  5. Copy the available Themes under the En_Us folder.
  6. Choose Go > Documents.
  7. Open Adobe Captivate Project folders > Layouts > 11_8 > En_US.
  8. Paste the copied themes in the En_US folder.
  9. Start Adobe Captivate again and the error message should be resolved.

Note that if you are using more recent versions of the Mac OS, you'll need to ensure that your version of Captivate is up to date. Here's a link to the most recent build on my Dropbox.