Productivity Tip

When inserting a graphic in a paragraph with text always type a space as the first character after the graphic, this will prevent the image caption style from being applied to the text you type.

1.Click in the editor at the position where you want to insert the graphic.

2.Select Insert > Image in the Write tab. displays the Open Image dialog:

•Alignment can make text wrap around the image (not displayed in editor, does not work in PDF).

•Padding adds empty space around the image (in pixels). You can set values for individual sides with .

•Zoom resizes the image, Autosize returns it to the default size.

•Tooltip is a text displayed when the mouse pointer is over the image.

•Caption is displayed below the image (formatted with the Image Caption style) and is included as the ALT attribute in HTML-based image formats.

You don't need to worry about entering the pixel dimensions of your graphic as you would have to do in an HTML editor. Help & Manual does this automatically.

You can set separate padding values for each side of the image by entering multiple values in the Padding field. The easiest way to do this is with the popup menu displayed when you click on in the Padding: field.

You can set the values manually: For all four sides (1 value), vertical and horizontal sides (2 values) or each side individually (4 values). The values apply in the same way as HTML values, clockwise from the top – i.e. top right bottom left.

Help & Manual 5 compatibility:
When you edit a HM6 project containing multiple padding values with Help & Manual 5 only the first value will be used! However, editing and saving with version 5 will not delete your multiple padding values. They will still be available the next time you edit in version 6.

You can also insert unsupported graphics formats by opening them in a graphics program that supports them and copying them to the Windows clipboard. Then just paste the clipboard contents in the Help & Manual editor. You will be prompted to save in an external file and you can then choose the format you want to save in.

1.Copy the graphic to the Windows clipboard in the source program.

2. Click in the editor at the position where you want to insert the graphic and press Ctrl+V or select Clipboard > Paste in the Write tab.

3.You will be prompted to save the graphic in an external file.

4.Give the image a descriptive name and save it in your project's graphics folder rather than the main project folder.

5.To edit the graphic insertion properties double-click on the graphic to reopen the Open Image dialog.

•The formatting of the caption text is controlled by a standard style called Image Caption. You can change this for the entire project by editing the style.

•You can also change the appearance of the caption text by applying font attributes directly. To do this select the graphic in the editor, then select the font attribute you want to apply (bold, underlined, font etc).

Note that you can only format the entire caption text. You cannot apply different font attributes to individual parts of the text. For more details see Image caption and comment styles.