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Description
See how you can take traditional, text based documentation and turn it into something visual in just a couple of minutes.
Note: This feature was introduced in version 2.0.2.
Using Split Step
See how you can take traditional, text based documentation and turn it into something visual in just a couple of minutes.
Note: This feature was introduced in version 2.0.2.
Original Material
Here is some documentation for Apple's Pages application. We are going to transform this into a visual tutorial. First, copy the text from the original lesson.
Create a Lesson In ScreenSteps
Create an new lesson in ScreenSteps and give it a title. Then, create a new blank step.
Paste Text
Paste the text from the original document into the step.
Split the Step
The problem here is that we have text that describes four steps pasted into a sing ScreenSteps step. So, we are just going to split it. Here I have placed the cursor at the end of the first step.
Right click (or ctrl-click on Mac) and select Split Step At Insertion Point. The step will be split wherever you have placed the cursor.
Here I have split each list item into its own step.
Add Images
Click on the Replace Step Image icon and capture an image for that step.
Here you can see that I have added an image.
Now, reading through the text I can see that they actually combined three steps into one. So I will split it up a bit more.
Here you can see that I split the instructions mid-sentence.
Add Remaining Images
Just repeat the process until you have all of your images.
Add Annotations and Step Titles
Add annotations and step titles. I also reformatted the original text. All in all it took me about 5 minutes. You can see the results here which I believe are much more useful than the original content.

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