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Search tips for Adobe Community Help Client (CHC)

Adobe Community Help Client (CHC) is the Help viewer that comes with Adobe products. When you press F1 from an Adobe product or launch Help from the Help menu, Help topics are displayed in CHC. CHC provides powerful search capabilities, in both online mode and offline mode. However, if you’re used to searching using browsers [...]

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24 Key RoboHelp Terms

My colleague, Nandini Gupta, and I have contributed an article explaining 24 key RoboHelp terms to Indus, the newsletter of the India chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). If you’re a new or intermediate-level user of RoboHelp, you’ll surely find it useful. The article also includes links to useful RoboHelp community content. So, [...]

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Announcing the Adobe TV Community Translation project

Adobe has just launched an innovative project, Adobe TV Community Translation. The project, as described on the Adobe TV site, extends the reach of Adobe TV content by enabling volunteer translators worldwide to translate videos into any language. Participants in the program use a simple, intuitive interface provided by our partner dotSUB to translate the [...]

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History, Favorites, and one-click bookmarking in the Adobe Community Help Client

The Adobe Community Help Client (CHC) maintains a history of the web sites and pages that you visited in the past. Select History > Browsing History to find pages that you recently visited. To clear all the data of your browsing activities with a single click – just, click Clear History. It’s that easy. The [...]

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Tabbed browsing in the Adobe Community Help Client – simple and easy!

There are many of us who love tabbed browsing for its ease-of-use and also that it keeps the desktop less cluttered! We now bring you this cool feature in the CHC, too. With tabbed browsing, just like in a browser, you can do the following in the CHC: Open multiple pages in separate tabs  View [...]

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Customizing the Adobe Community Help Client using Preferences

The Adobe Community Help Client (CHC) offers a number of preferences to help you personalize your CHC, and control how the content is displayed.  Select Edit > Preferences to set your CHC preferences. General Settings You can choose a light or dark colored theme for the CHC. Browsing History and Search History are enabled, by [...]

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The handy “Find” feature of the Adobe Community Help Client

While the Search capabilities of the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC) are indeed very powerful, I also find the Find feature of the CHC very handy. You can search for a word or a phrase on a page displayed in the CHC in a keystroke. Just press Ctrl+F and enter the word or phrase that you want [...]

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Search capabilities in the Adobe Community Help Client

A few days ago, I wrote a post introducing the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC) for TCS 3.0. Here is the first in the series of blog posts detailing the features of the CHC. In this post, I describe the powerful search capabilities of the CHC. Search is key to the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC), and the CHC [...]

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Introducing Adobe Community Help Client for TCS 3.0

The Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.0 ships with a brand new Help system called the Adobe Community Help Client (CHC).  The CHC is installed by default with TCS 3.0, replacing the erstwhile Adobe Help Viewer 2. The CHC is an AIR application that provides Help content for the TCS suite of products, and is your [...]

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