Hi Kitlee3
On the variables, indeed it will
appear that nothing has changed if you are inserting a
variable that contains the same text as what is being replaced. But
if you hover your mouse over the text you should see a small popup
that indicates it is actually a variable.
One of my favorite uses of variables is CompanyName and
CompanyAcronym. If you used these two variables in topics you might
see AmeriCan MEthods and ACME. But when you went to generate your
output you would have an option to configure the variables to
something different. For example, WidgetCo and WC. And the output
would then contain WidgetCo and WC wherever the variables appeared.
As for the breadcrumbs, you may be expecting something
different than what you get. Note there are two different types of
breadcrumb trails.
* Historical (Presented in a list containing the order in
which topics have been viewed)
* Hierarchal (Presented in a list based on a Hierarchy, such
as the Table of Contents)
RoboHelp breadcrumb trails are the latter. They are based on
where the topic exists in the Table of Contents.
Hopefully this was helpful... Rick