Edit WebHelp Skin Buttons?

On the Toolbar tab in the WebHelp Skin Editor, can the
default buttons (Contents, Index, etc.) in The Main and Nav Bar
lists be rearranged or deleted? When I select one of these buttons,
the delete button ( - minus button) is disabled. And there seems to
be no way to reorder them.

Hi dchell and welcome to our community
When you generate WebHelp in the following manner:
Locate the Single Source Layouts area and double-click the
WebHelp layout
You have options in the ensuing dialogs that allow you to
choose whether the TOC/Index/Search/Glossary buttons appear and in
which order.
Cheers... Rick

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Hello again
Happy I was able to help.
MOTW is only present and affects things when you are running content off your local C drive. It's value is in preventing that Yellow Information Bar and all that from appearing when you are using IE. Once you publish content to a server and access it that way you are in a different security zone and MOTW has no influence either way. So there would be no adantage to enabling it before publishing to a server. The only reason you might want to consider enabling it would be if you were copying the WebHelp to everyone's hard drive and having them run it from their hard drives.
Make sense?
Hope so... Rick
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Hi all
For anyone interessted I've put together a CHM file so one may easily see each Skin appearance before having to download it to see what it looks like.
They used to have the images up there for you to see. Not sure why they aren't there any longer.
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