I'm new to Help authoring and am enjoying learning Help Studio 3. I would like to create a Help project with the exact look of the Help Studio 3 Help. I assume all of the styles necessary are in the HelpStudio.css file. Is there a way to view an example of applying each style? I tried loading .css file in the Styles folder to view with the editor but the program does not allow it. For example I'd like to paste an Excel table into a topic and then apply a style that produces a table with the look of a Help Studio 3 Help table. I've pasted the table in but I don't know which style to apply or even if one exists. Perhaps it will take multiple styles? Header, background, etc.
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Richard Sloggett The HelpStudio help does indeed use the styles contained in the standard style sheet. Most of these are element rules (i.e. they apply to specific elements) so don't need to be applied directly. Tables in the HelpStudio use standard styles but you will need to convert the first row to a header (right click in the Topic Editor and choose 'Convert Row To Header') to get the dark grey header row. The tables in the HelpStudio help also have a grey border and a few pixels cell padding. You can define those properties in your own custom stylesheet, or on a table by table basis.
Hope this helps.
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DDH I was able to build a table with the look I wanted following your suggestions. I did have to do a fare amount of HTML editing due to bugs in the table editor when adding/inserting rows past 10. Cut and paste worked fine.
Thx
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