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December 17, 2008
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Chapter numbering - how to get rid of it

  • December 17, 2008
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Is there an easy way to suppress the chapter numbering of imported topics? I cannot imagine that the majority of help authors want topics that are imported from Word documents to maintain the chapter numbers.

I noticed these numbers are always included in a specific way. The corresponding lines begin with <h1>1.<span..>  </span> , i.e., two non-breaking spaces in the span. That means it would probably be possible to use an advanced search & replace tool to remove the numbering, not a very nice workflow though. Are you awaye of any other method?
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December 17, 2008
Thanks for the fast responses, changing the original document is indeed a better option than doing a serch & replace. Style mapping on the other hand does not fix it because RoboHelp writes the numbers directly into the HTML.
RoboColum_n_
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December 17, 2008
This sounds like a style mapping issue. You could start by reading this link on Peter Grainge's site that links to other topics depending on which RH version you are using.
Peter Grainge
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Community Expert
December 17, 2008
I would be inclined to take a copy of the document and change the heading styles to remove the numbering.

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