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November 11, 2011
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Heading style customizations not reflected in HTML Help file

  • November 11, 2011
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I wanted to share a solution I found for a problem with heading styles. I am using RoboHelp 9 for Word with Office 2010 and generating an HTMLHelp .chm file. When I migrated from Office 2003 to 2010 and RoboHelp 8 to 9, I customized the RoboHelp.docm template file to change the heading styles to have an orange border line over the header. (I had made the customizations in RH 8 for Word, but couldn't transfer the customization to the new template, so I did it by hand). The border line came out black in the header file in most of my topics in the .chm help file. I found one Word doc had topics with the orange line displayed correctly in the help and discovered that that heading style had Style Type = Linked, so I went to each of my Word docs and changed my Heading 1 style to use that style type and it fixed it for all my heading styles.

In Word 2010, you can change this from the Home tab, Styles ribbon. Rt-click on the Heading 1 style and choose Modify. In the Modify Style dialog set Style type to Linked (paragraph and character).

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Willam van Weelden
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November 11, 2011

Thanks for sharing!

Greet,

Willam