Menu
Cart 0

Author Tools — Uncategorized

Adding Thumbnails within Recipe Elements

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

The Recipe element is a simple way to lay out instructions for the users and is sometimes a better way to show the steps for the expert users that don’t need the full walkthrough screen by screen. But sometimes there is information that you want to highlight within the recipe just so that people don’t...
Read More

Read more →

Adding Tips and Cues To Illustrations

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

Sometimes with walkthroughs you want to highlight certain areas within the illustration, maybe you want to point to specific items, highlight areas, or something else to help explain the process better. The problem is that you don’t want to edit the main image and corrupt it. There is a better way with the Author Tools...
Read More

Read more →

Turning On or Off Section Breaks

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

By default, as the Author Tools build up the document for you, every time there is a new Section, Chapter or Part, it adds in a Section Break within the word document. This makes the Word document easier to manage and also allows you to have the section names within the header if you want...
Read More

Read more →

Turning off Walkthrough Step Headings

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

By default, when a walkthrough element is added in the document then each of the pages has a heading which includes the section name and also the name heading on the step that it is adding. This makes it easier to see where you are within the walkthrough, and also makes the page look a...
Read More

Read more →

Automatically adding boilerplate to documents

Posted by Author, Curator, Visually Impared Squirrel Literacy Advocate & Dynamics AX Technical Solution Professional (TSP) at Microsoft on

If you are converting a larger storyboard into a number of smaller documents, as you would do if you were breaking them up into bog posts, then you will probably want to add a standard introduction to each of the blog posts, and maybe even some standard follow up text at the end for more...
Read More

Read more →