Build an Outline

You build an outline by linking documents together in a way that best conveys the information that you want to communicate to your audience. Although there are several ways to create documents, you must use the Outline Editor to define the outline by linking module/section and topic documents to one another. For example, you can create new documents from the Library without any links and then use the Outline Editor to design the outline by linking the various documents that you have created in the Library. You can also create the outline "on the fly" by linking new documents directly from the Outline Editor.

Consider the following before deciding how to build your content:

• If you create a new document from the Library (File, New), you can predetermine the folder in which it is stored; however, you cannot link a document or view its relationship to other documents.
• If you link a new section or topic document from the Outline Editor, it is stored in the same Library folder as the parent document to which it is linked. When you link a new module, you are prompted to define its properties, at which time you can adjust the location where it is stored.

Regardless of how you build content, you will use some combination of module, section, and topic documents.