How to update the icons of your HTML documentation’s table of contents

How to update the icons of your HTML documentation's table of contents
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Creating the most complete, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation is the number one priority of technical writers. But readers expect a clean and modern design and companies oftentimes need to integrate documentation web-sites with their existing material, thus mimicking a predefined look-and-feel. Thankfully, the HelpNDoc help authoring tool lets you rapidly add a logo or custom CSS code for quick customization, or even create a completely new template to fully customize your deliverables. In this article, let’s see how you can use customized icons in the generated HTML documentation’s table of contents.

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Add Bar Codes or QR Codes and list anchors in your documentation projects with HelpNDoc 6.9

Add Bar Codes or QR Codes and list anchors in your documentation projects with HelpNDoc 6.9
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 6.9, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features such as the addition of a Bar codes and QR codes editor, the ability to analyze all anchors used within your documentation project, and much more. Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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How to schedule automated user documentation generation ?

How to schedule automated user documentation generation ?
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Technical writers need to frequently build their documentation, user manual or help web-sites to be able to share them with team members or deliver them to end-users. This can be a time consuming process which require care and attention to make sure that the correct version is periodically built. Fortunately, the HelpNDoc help authoring tool can be automated to perform scheduled documentation generation. Let's see how this can be done.

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Import from CHM help files’ source and customizable keyboard shortcuts in HelpNDoc 6.8

Import from CHM help files' source and customizable keyboard shortcuts in HelpNDoc 6.8
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 6.8, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features such as the ability to import CHM help files' HHP source projects, a keyboard shortcut editor, better image and image map support and much more. Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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Automatic generation of YouTube and Vimeo embed codes and improved High-DPI screen support in HelpNDoc 6.7

Automatic generation of YouTube and Vimeo embed codes and improved High-DPI screen support in HelpNDoc 6.7
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 6.7, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features such as the ability to automatically generate YouTube and Vimeo embed codes and warn if the generated documentation's folder is not accessible before generation. It also includes a lot of enhancements and bug fixes for Word and PDF generation on High-DPI screens. Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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How to locate and fix broken hyperlinks in your user manuals, eBooks and help files

How to locate and fix broken hyperlinks in your user manuals, eBooks and help files
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Technical writers rely on hyperlinks to organize and reference multiple parts of their printed user manuals, eBooks or help files. Making sure hyperlinks are up to date is very important as broken hyperlinks can disrupt the learning flow of the end-user, who might be overwhelmed as she couldn't find the information needed: this can lead to increased support costs if a support ticket is opened. Thankfully, the HelpNDoc help authoring tool includes a straightforward hyperlink analyzer to help technical writers quickly spot and fix problematic hyperlinks.

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Zoom the topic editor, print and export analyzer reports to PDF and Excel with HelpNDoc 6.6

Zoom the topic editor, print and export analyzer reports to PDF and Excel with HelpNDoc 6.6
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 6.6, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features such as the ability to zoom the topic editor, printing and PDF or Excel export capabilities for the project analyzer, a greatly enhanced topic editor with better high resolution screen support, as well as many other enhancements and bug fixes. Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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Command search field, refreshed user interface, better template editor and more in HelpNDoc 6.5

Command search field, refreshed user interface, better template editor and more in HelpNDoc 6.5
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 6.5, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This update features a refreshed modern user interface inspired by the latest Microsoft Office suite, a brand new search field to rapidly find and run any command available in HelpNDoc, an enhanced template editor to easily define video tags for HTML based documentation formats, as well as many other enhancements and bug fixes. Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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Create a new HTML template to customize your online documentation projects

Create a new HTML template to customize your online documentation projects
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The recent release of HelpNDoc 6.4 includes an enhanced single page HTML template with the ability to optionally add a table of contents to the produced single page HTML documentation. We obviously used HelpNDoc’s powerful template editor to modify the single page template and we thought it might be a good idea to document this process for learning purposes. Follow the steps described in this article to learn how you can create and alter HTML-based documentation templates using HelpNDoc’s build-in tools.

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