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Chapter 6
Creating Your First AuthorIT Document
This chapter takes you through a step‐by‐step tutorial to create your first AuthorIT
document. If you are not already familiar with the AuthorIT interface, we recommend
that you first read the Introducing the AuthorIT Interface chapter ‐ and you can
always go back to that section later if you need to.
In This Chapter
Creating a New Library .................................................................................. 79
Logging in to the Library ................................................................................ 81
Working in a New Folder ............................................................................... 82
Add some content ............................................................................................ 83
Importing existing documents ....................................................................... 83
Opening your New Book ................................................................................ 87
Create a New Topic ......................................................................................... 88
Reuse existing content..................................................................................... 91
Add a Title Page............................................................................................... 92
Add an Index.................................................................................................... 93
Reusing Existing Topics .................................................................................. 94
Rearrange the Content..................................................................................... 95
Ensure the correct Templates are applied .................................................... 96
Inserting a Picture into a Topic ...................................................................... 97
Create a Hypertext Link................................................................................ 100
Creating a New Library
An AuthorIT Library contains all of the books, objects, relationships and other
information you work with. Unless you work with a variety of different standards (for
different clients, for example), you will usually only need one Library. So, creating a
new library is not something you will have to do often ‐ but we need one for this
Tutorial.
Note: If AuthorIT is already running, please close it before beginning this Tutorial.
To Create a New Library
1) Start AuthorIT. The Create/Open Library window appears.
Note: If the window does not appear it means that you have turned off the
ʺShow Open Library Dialogʺ option. In this case, choose File > New Library, then
go directly to Step 3.
If the New Library command is grayed out, choose File > Close Library, then try
the New Library command again, then go to Step 3.