I imported a Word document yesterday - how do I know which file I imported?

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July 29, 2022
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There are cluse as to the file name in the ToC and contents, but I need to know which file it was

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Peter Grainge

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I just realised there is something close to a solution. If you look in the CSS folder, when RoboHelp imports a document it creates a CSS for any styles not in the main CSS. If there is more than one import there will be more than one CSS. However, it is at least a clue.

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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I just had a look at one of my projects that imports a FrameMaker file and busts it up into RH topics - there's a "meta" tag present in the Source Code view of the topic in RH - here's the text of it:
<meta name="OriginalFile" content="C:\FMDoc_projects\content\welcome.fm" />
Maybe your Word doc created a similar tag in your topics.

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George McGeachieAuthor

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I found a different approach, which works for me so far:

added a content folder, then added link to the Word doc
right-click the document link, edit settings - to control topic levels etc
right-click the document link, create/update topics - this creates the topics
in the ToC, auto-create ToC entries

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George McGeachieAuthor

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similar approach works for HTML - gives me the ability to sync with external html files

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

I'm not sure there's any evidence left in the resulting topic properties of the source doc that created it. You could check them or have a look at the source code of a topic to see.

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George McGeachieAuthor

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Thanks - I did read somewhere about linking to files, but I think that's separate - would be nice if the impirt gave you the option to create a link to the imported file

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