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Additional HotDocs Tutorials

Important Note: Some tutorials cover features available only in specific versions of HotDocs.

The following tutorials supplement those that are included with HotDocs. These tutorials, which demonstrate more advanced options or features of HotDocs, are packaged as HotDocs auto-install files (or HDIs). A description of each tutorial is included below.

To download and install these files, you have two options:

  • Click on the link for the tutorial you want to complete. If the File Download dialog box appears, click Open. The Install Template Set dialog box appears.* Accept the default locations HotDocs suggests for both the library file and the templates and click OK. The templates are installed and the new library opens.

*This dialog box appears automatically if your Web browser has the HotDocs MIME types set up correctly.

  • Right-click on the link for the tutorial you want to complete and choose Save Target As from the shortcut menu. Specify a location on the local disk for the file you are saving. Once downloaded, start HotDocs. Choose Install Templates from the File menu of the library. The Install Template Set dialog box appears. Accept the default locations HotDocs suggests for both the library file and the templates and click OK. The templates are installed and the new library opens.

Instructions for completing each individual tutorial are included in the PDF that is installed with the templates. This PDF is accessible from the library.

To report problems with these tutorials, please send an e-mail to publications@hotdocs.com.

Complete Library of Tutorials

This file contains all of the additional tutorials listed below in a single download.
HotDocs 2008    HotDocs 2007


Add Links on a Dialog that Process Scripts

Learn how to add a link to a dialog that runs a computation. In this lesson, a script link will let you create two custom documents while completing a single interview.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Automate Non-Standard Form Tables

Learn how to automate a non-standard form table (or a table where columns or rows are not defined in the traditional left-to-right way).
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Combine and Separate Answers

Learn how to join together separate answers, and how to separate a single answer into parts.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Create Captions in Text Templates

Learn how to use word processor tables to create captions in text templates.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Create Interview Templates

Learn how to create an interview template and use it to generate an answer source file, which can be used to answer questions in other templates.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Create Custom Dialog Titles

Learn how to customize the titles used for each dialog in a repeated series.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Customize Table Addenda

Learn how to customize a table's overflow properties so that when extra rows of answers are entered in a table, only those rows are sent to the addendum.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Dynamically Create Multiple Choice Variables

Learn how to create a Multiple Choice variable "on the fly" using answers the user enters during the interview.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Format Dialog Elements Text Using Dot Codes

Learn how to create dialog elements and then use dot codes to format the text.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Merge Two Lists

Learn how to combine answers from two repeated dialogs into one dialog using WHILE instructions.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Repeat a Template to Create Multiple Documents

Learn how to repeat a single template to create multiple documents.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Script Answer Sources

Learn how to customize the same dialog and answer source for two different templates. Use the HIDE, CONCEAL, and OMIT instructions.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Use Default and Overlay Answer Files

Learn how to use default answer files as well as overlay answer files.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
View a Marked Up Version of a Template

Learn how to mark up a template for non-HotDocs users to review.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

 
Work with Non-Typical Form Fields

Learn how to create form fields that merge graphics, bar codes, circles, and strike-through characters – among other things.
HotDocs 2008   HotDocs 2007    HotDocs 2006    HotDocs 2005

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