Friday, March 26, 2010

Oops. Created a nightmare...Word import...

I thought I was so clever...



I generated a Word doc from my Robohelp project so that
people could edit the content in Word. Once all their changes are
entered in the Word doc, I planned to import the Word doc and then
generate the new online help.



Slight problem....I have no idea how to import the revised
Word doc so that I don't create a cut and paste nightmare. The Word
doc import creates new topics, but I want to replace the existing
topics.



Is there a way to do this or did I set myself up for a long,
long day of cutting and pasting the new topics imported from Word
into my existing topics?



Oops. Created a nightmare...Word import...
Hokay.



After reading/searching a bit more, I have come to the
conclusion that it's probably best that I import the Word doc into
a new Robo project, then import the new html files from the new
project to my existing project, overwriting the original topics so
that they are updated.



Question...Robo keeps converting some of my headings into
bookmarks, not separate topics, and I'd like them as separate
topics.



In Word, I have applied the Heading 1 style to every topic
I'd like to create. Heading 1 is the only other style besides some
hyperlinks and bolding and normal. When I get the dialog box in
Robo that asks how new topics should be created, I select the
Heading 1 checkbox. Robo then creates a few new topics, but it's
bookmarking a lot of the topics I had marked as H1 in Word. In
Word, I have 327 H1 styles. In Robo, I only have 10 new topics; the
rest are bookmarks.



Why is it doing this and how do I get it to stop?Oops. Created a nightmare...Word import...
In Word, have you created your own Heading 1 style or used
the built in headings. You must use the latter. Changing the name
to Heading 1 Myname can also affect it.



If the style is Heading 1 as supplied without manual
formatting, it should work. Something is telling RoboHelp that not
all the headings are really Heading 1.



Take another look and post back. I'll look in the morning.
Closing down here now.




Aha!



When I generated the print doc, the print doc picked up
Robo's H1 style. The regular Word H1 style wasn't available in the
style list, so I coped and pasted into a new doc, applied the
regular H1 style, and it works now.



Thank you!



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