Toolbar Button for "Add to Index"

[NL_Derek-56V59O]

I make CHM (context-sensitive help) using RH8. My SME wants an index (it's quite heavy technical stuff) and I add index keywords by:

* select text in the topic,

* right-click,

* Add to > Index Keyword > ProjectName.

If I could make a toolbar button for this I could let my SME create the index himself.

Is there a way of creating a custom toolbar button in RH8? Alternatively, is it possible to carry out the above procedure using the keyboard (no mouse)?

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--- Derek

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Would this proposed button be in the CHM itself? Or in the RoboHelp development environment?

Cheers... Rick

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[NL_Derek-56V59O]

Hi Rick,

In the development environment.

--- Derek

[Captiv8r]

Hi Derek

I had hoped there was a way to accomplish this. But I'm not seeing one. You should probably submit a Wish Form to ask for it.

Cheers... Rick

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[Guest]

Yes, this button, or preferably a consistent keyboard shortcut, would be most helpful.

In RH versions 5 and 6, you could highlight the keywords, right click, and then tap 2 or 3 keys on the keyboard and the words were tagged into the index. Easy to learn and very quick indeed; you could do it automatically, without thinking.

Then the programmers got "clever" and dynamically changed the keyboard shortcuts depending on where you were / what you highlighted in the topic, so that for many right-click-menu functions, the shortcuts needed different keystrokes each time; and sometimes you couldn't use the keyboard shortcuts at all. You now have to stop and read the right-click menu carefully every time, and we're back to using the mouse.

(Imagine doing the index for, say, 390 topics, with 10-20 keywords per topic. And they make us use a mouse?)

Shortcuts are faster! (Imagine driving a car by using a mouse?)

Perhaps it needs some kind of macro facility?