Document! X for Technical Writers
Document! X provides a highly productive environment in which Technical Writers can author, edit and validate documentation content.
Authoring content
The Document! X Content File Editor provides a fully featured HTML based authoring environment, where content for the documentation generated by Document! X can be
created and edited.

In addition to the Content File Editor, the Document! X IDE provides tools to aid with editing and validating content. These tools can be used when one or more Content
Files are open for editing.
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Project Find and Replace allows project wide changes to be made.
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Project Spell Check allows the spelling in one or more open content files to be validated. Ignore words are stored with the Content File and spell
check operations can be limited to content changed since the last spell check, minimizing the amount of effort required to ensure correct spell checking over
time.
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Project Link check allows you to validate that hyperlinks and image references within the authored content are valid.
Customization
The template based configuration that Document! X is based on makes it easy to:
- Create new comment types for use in source code comments;
- Add additional standard content to the generated documentation (for example a glossary or company information);
- Adapt existing templates to match your existing corporate style and color scheme;
- Customize Table of Contents definitions according to your requirements;
- Fine tune the standard phrases and terminology used by Document! X to match your standards.
Help where you need it
The Document! X IDE includes a comprehensive help system, including a Contents, Index and Dynamic Help window. The Dynamic Help window provides a list of help topics,
tutorials, getting started guides and movies relevant to your current activity enabling both new and experienced users to get to grips with Document! X functionality as quickly as
possible.
Document! X includes several printable 'Getting Started' PDF booklets to enable you to get immediate results from Document! X.
Authoring examples
The easy to use Example code designer included in the Content Editors makes adding multi-language examples a breeze. In-line or linked examples can be created and example code
is automatically colorized in the generated output.
Localization
Document! X supports several different languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Russian) for the phrases used in the generated output. All of the
phrases and terminology in the generated output can be configured according to preference.
Model Comments - re-usable common descriptions
Model Comments allow you to define common descriptions in a model comment profile for re-use in future projects. For example, ActiveX controls usually support a set of
common properties and events (e.g. KeyPress event, BackColor property) - Model Comments allow you to define descriptions for these members once and have Document! X use them
wherever the members appear in order to reduce duplication and effort.