The Paul Neshamkin Group

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help Training

Open training classes are now offered in Pittsburgh by ComponentOne. These classes are being taught by Paul Neshamkin, who wrote and developed them with MJ Plaster. Paul is also giving Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced online training classes on a monthly basis for ComponentOne. For a schedule and additional information, see ComponentOne's web site at www.componentone.com.

Onsite Training

You can also contact the Paul Neshamkin Group to schedule onsite training based on these materials.

Doc-To-Help 2007.3 Released

Since ComponentOne first released their first version of Doc-To-Help five years ago, a lot of improvements and functionality has been added. If you took a quick evaluation of the earlier releases, it's certainly time for you to re-evaluate. With the release of version 2007.3 (Enterprise and Word) Doc-To-Help is proving itself to be both powerful and highly reliable. The changes in Doc-To-Help that are really exciting (and long overdue) are support for authoring in the HTML editor of your choice (although you can still author in Word, you are not limited to it), and the addition of the Doc-To-Help Markup Language (D2HML). D2HML allows the author to use styles to markup the source documents in Word or HTML to create any of the behaviors (links, conditional text, keywords, etc.) that will used to create the Help target output. Source documents can be edited independently of the program, and reused and included in any project. Although the full list of new features is impressive and extensive (you can find them at http://www.componentone.com/), what I really like are the improvements in flexibility, reliability and speed. Doc-To-Help is ready to take on the HAT world.

What About Doc-To-Help 2000 Users?

After selling the development rights for Doc-To-Help to ComponentOne, WexTech Systems stopped support for Doc-To-Help 2000 and earlier, and turned over its Knowledge base and FAQs to ComponentOne, who seem to no longer have them on their web site. They have set up a peer-to-peer Forum for support of Doc-To-Help 2000 that you can subscribe to at http://helpcentral.componentone.com/CS/forums/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=2.

In addition, Paul Neshamkin has created a D2HUsers group for peer-to-peer support of all versions of Doc-To-Help including 2000 (and earlier) users. This site hosted by Yahoo groups (as is the industry-standard HATT group) can be joined by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/D2HUsers. We hope this will become a useful and active, independent source of information and assistance.

If you still need training in Doc-To-Help 2000 (although you should have upgraded to Doc-To-Help 2006 long ago), Paul still offers the courses he developed when he was the director of training at WexTech.

Who are we? We are online documentation experts specializing in developing HTML Help and Windows Help solutions for large and small businesses. Founded in August 1998 by Paul Neshamkin, the former Director of Training and Technical Support at WexTech Systems, the group offers online design and development consulting, and training for all the online authoring tools. ComponentOne Doc-To-Help Certified Trainer and MVP WexTech Certified Doc-To-Help Trainer and MVP

Paul Awarded MVP Status   Paul Neshamkin, PNG's principal, has been awarded Doc-To-Help MVP status by ComponentOne.     Paul was awarded the Walden (the Author's Choice Award) for being the "Best Online Problem Solver" at the WinWriters Online Help Conference in Seattle on February 24, 1999. What are we up to? The Paul Neshamkin Group teamed up with MJ Plaster to create the training materials for the ComponentOne Doc-To-Help. For more information, see the ComponentOne web site.