Editing Outside of RoboHelp and Then Importing

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November 19, 2010
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Is it possible in RH7 or RH8 to export the data to a Word file, have someone make edits, and then import the Word document back into RH? RH would then update the corrsponding topics with the changes.

Thxs

srm

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Peter Grainge

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Sorry but no it is not possible. When you cut and paste from Word it does not carry any formatting and that has the advantage you don't get Word's horrible way of writing HTML, which can cause problems of its own. So you will have to get the SME to use Track Changes and then manually make the changes.

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Peter Grainge

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There is an option you could consider if the workflow suits.

RoboHelp 8 allows you to link to Word documents on your network. You could create Word documents and save them to the network, then you would create links to those documents. The document can be broken up into many topics.

Your editor can do their review and then you update the link.

Try it in a test project.

Thanks to Rick Stone for the suggestion.

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srmsrmAuthor

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Thanks. I currently have RH7. If upgrade to RH8, has this option been tested to see how effective it is? I can also just buy two copies of RH8 and we can update the projects using our version control software.

Based on people's experience using the link feature, what path might be most effective?

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srm

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