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You can make your own Screenbooks by downloading and installing Screenbook Maker from Screenbooks.net .

At the present time, Screenbook Maker is only available for the Microsoft Windows platform. Running Screenbook Maker version 1.x requires Internet Explorer 6.0+, but Screenbooks created with Screenbook Maker can be viewed with any modern browser, including Netscape and Opera.

Screenbook Maker is a free program. For more information about obtaining Screenbook Maker, go to Screenbooks.net .

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Screenbook Maker allows you to:

• Create Screenbooks. Screenbooks are viewable in either Netscape 4+ or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4+ or any other modern browser. Screenbook Maker automates the process of capturing a picture of the screen and creating each page. Notes and floating arrows can be added to each screen.
• Edit Screenbooks. After you've created a screenbook, you or others can edit pages, and add or delete pages. Each page retains separate author and copyright information, so each page creator can get credit for their work.
• Organize screenbooks into topics, subtopics and bookshelves. Screenbooks can also be easily viewed in Screenbook Maker. Screenbooks can categorized in different ways, and sophisticated searching is built in to Screenbook Maker.
• Upload and download Screenbooks, either by email, FTP, or direct copy.
• Completely customize your Screenbooks. Each screenbook bookshelf has a set of XSLT templates that can be edited to change the fonts, colors and other features of all of the screenbooks in the bookshelf.
• Create HTML Help files like those in Windows 2000 and XP. Using Screenbook Maker and Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop (separate download, free) you can convert any bookshelf to an HTML help file that contains all of your screenbooks in one easy to use, compressed format.  

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This is the main screen of Screenbook Maker.

The left pane has a list of screenbook Bookshelves (collections of screenbooks).

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Clicking on the + sign next to a bookshelf will expand the contents of the bookshelf. (The plus sign is called a node ).

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Here we've opened a few nodes on a bookshelf. The Books node contains a series of Screenbooks. To view a screenbook,

1. Click on the Screenbook Title in the left pane
2. The first page of the book displays in the right pane.

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The current version of Screenbook Maker allows you to display two types of Bookshelves.

1. Web bookshelves. A web bookshelf is a collection of screenbooks located on another computer and accessible by Internet. At the present time, screenbooks in Web Bookshelves can be viewed, but not edited directly.

2. Regular Bookshelves. These are bookshelves located on your machine or a machine on your local network. Screenbooks in Regular Bookshelves can be edited, and you can make and add new Screenbooks and add them to a Regular Bookshelf.

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By default, when you install Screenbook Maker, two regular bookshelves will be created.

Main Bookshelf: Use this for creating and storing screenbooks that anyone using your machine can view.

My Bookshelf: These bookshelves will only be viewable when logging in with your user name and password.

If you are using Windows 98 instead of Windows NT or Windows 2000, you can use either the  Main Bookshelf or My Bookshelf interchangeably.

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You can print out a copy of the screenbook that you are viewing by clicking on the print icon.

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In the next tutorial we'll see how easy it is to create your own tutorials with Screenbook Maker.