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Using Split Step

See how you can take traditional, text based documentation and turn it into something visual in just a couple of minutes.

Original Material

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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

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Create an new lesson in ScreenSteps and give it a title. Then, create a new blank step.

Paste Text

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Paste the text from the original document into the step.

Split the Step

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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.

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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.

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Here I have split each list item into its own step.

Add Images

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Click on the Replace Step Image icon and capture an image for that step.

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Here you can see that I have added an image.

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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.

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Here you can see that I split the instructions mid-sentence.

Add Remaining Images

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Just repeat the process until you have all of your images.

Add Annotations and Step Titles

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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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