AuthorIT for Users
AuthorIT is very simple to use, but the learning curve is steep. Even if you have started to find your way around the program, you may not be sure that you're using it to its full potential. With this course you'll learn everything you need to use AuthorIT day-to-day, enabling you to get on with real productive work as quickly as possible.
The course is tutor-led by a Certified AuthorIT Consultant, and can be delivered on-site or on-line. Each course element comprises tutorial, demonstration, hands-on self-paced exercises and discussion.
At course completion
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand and apply the essential concepts of single-source documentation
- Understand AuthorIT's working environment and use it effectively
- Create single-source content, including text, tables and graphics
- Create documents in AuthorIT and publish them to multiple outputs for print, web and help
- Organise and locate the library objects that you use in your documents
- Effectively reuse content in a range of different ways
- Create hyperlinks to provide navigation for your readers
- Create indexes, tables of contents and glossaries
- Use AuthorIT's edit history facility for information, audit and roll-back
- Use release states for workflow and review purposes
- Import documents into AuthorIT
- Use AuthorIT's version control
- Set up your personal library and user options
Topics covered
Introduction to single-sourcing
- Two meanings of single-sourcing
- How it affects writing and working practices
AuthorIT Overview
- The AuthorIT modules
- Applications
- Libraries, objects and templates
- Understanding the Library Explorer
- listing objects in the library
- viewing object properties
- previewing objects
- viewing object histories
- Understanding the Book Editor
- using the book contents editor
- opening topics for viewing and editing
- viewing object details
Understanding objects
- Understanding objects and properties
- Understanding object templates
- Creating and editing objects
Working with books
- Creating a book
- Using book templates
- Opening a book in the book editor
Working with topics
- What is a topic?
- Creating a topic
- Choosing topic templates
- Adding text and using styles
- Using different headings and description
- Positioning and outlining topics
- Removing unwanted topics
- Using find and replace
Working with tables
- Creating a table
- Formatting a table
- Editing a table
Working with graphics
- Choosing the insert method
- Adding graphics
- Using graphic templates
- Choosing the output view
- Applying styles to graphics
- Adding captions and borders
- Sizing and scaling graphics
- Choosing graphic output formats
- Updating graphics
Working with hyperlinks
- Creating hyperlinks
- Using hyperlink templates
- Creating multi-target links
- Using an existing hyperlink
- Creating a mailto link
- Linking to a URL
- Using a graphic hotspot
Publishing
- Choosing the books to publish
- Choosing the outputs
- Choosing the output destination
- Viewing the published output
- What to deliver
Organising and locating objects
- Understanding folders
- Working with folders
- Moving objects between folders
- Locating objects in the library and in books
- Using the library search
- Showing and using object relationships
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Adding a print document title page
- Adding the title page object to a book
- Defining title page elements
- Adding a graphic
- Creating a custom title page
Adding a table of contents
- Adding the TOC object to a book
- Setting TOC options
Creating a glossary
- Adding the glossary object to a book
- Creating glossary entries
- Adding glossary entries from the library
- Sorting glossary terms
Creating an index
- Understanding index operation
- Adding the index object to a book
- Selecting index build options
- Understanding HTML index types
- Creating index entries
- Creating a multi-level index
Reusing content
- Understanding single-source reuse
- Reusing topics
- Reusing graphics
- Reusing hyperlinks
- Embedding topics
- Pasting topics
- Using sub-books for modular documentation
- Using variables
- Duplicating objects
- Creating variants of books
Using the edit history
- Understanding the edit history
- Showing an object's history
- Using the history compare
- Reverting to an earlier revision
Using release states
- Understanding release states
- Changing release states
- Using review colours
Importing material from other sources
- Understanding the import process
- Preparing a document for import
- Using rules to transform imported files
- Using profiles for different file imports
- Importing files
- Fixing problems
Using version control
- Understanding AuthorIT's version control
- Considering alternatives
- Creating new versions of an object
- Making a new version active
- Reverting to a previous version
- Creating a new version of a book
Setting user and library options
- Setting save options
- Setting default file locations
- Setting spelling options
- Entering user details
- Setting advanced options
- Customising the styles toolbar
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Course administration
On-site delivery
On-line delivery
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