Import .docx menu document and generate a help menu based on the .docx

Just come bak to say thank you to Peter Grainge and Jeff, and others who replied to this thread.

Thank you so much for your professional help!

Apologize to Peter due to I misunstood this as Adobehelp line.  We are users and in this community helping each other.

It is so precious to get help from other experienced users like Peter and Jeff. 

Pardon me if I missed mentioning your name.

Have a nice weekend!

Lily

As to suggesting that a video be added to You Tube, I pointed out before that this is a user to user forum. CHMs are little used now, indeed Microsoft stopped developing the compiler in 2004. 

The converter script is not something you need to create a CHM, it is only for users who want to make their CHM look a bit more modern.

I doubt it would get viewed by many. 

You asked recently about why the topic pane was empty and that identified you had put the CHM on a network drive. Now you have moved it locally and everything works. Something else must have changed as your original image showed a topic displayed and the problem was that the search did not work along with other things. On a network drive the topic pane would have been empty as well.

Are you saying that now the CHM is working correctly?

1. Create a new project

2. Right click Project Files and click Import Topics

3. make sure the document type is word, browse to the .docx word file, 

4. Click Open

5. Check the option of Import Max, update the header/footer master pages level to 4 in my case.

6. Click Edit

7. In the word document settings window, click Paragraph, click Automap paragraphy styles

8. Click + sign beside Paragraph, click Heading 1, on the right pane check the option of Pagination, 

9, Do the same for Heading 2, Heading 3 and Heading 4

10. Click Tocheading, and also check the option of Pagination.

11. Click - sign beside Paragraph

12, Click Charactor, check the option of Automap Character Styles, 

13. Click Table, check the option of Automap Table Styles

14. Click Other Settings, check the option of Auto-create CSS style from inline formatting and Convert References to hyperlinks

15. Click OK.

16. Click Export, save settings to an .isf file 

17. Click Next, the import will begin, wait till finish.

Click Save All.

18. Click the bottom Output (SSL)

19. Double Click Microsoft HTML Help, 

20. Click Save and Generate

21. The help file will be generated.  The .chm file is located at !SSL! folder in the project folder.

22. pass .chm file to the developer to put into the software for help menu:)

23. When running .chm file to check, make sure .chm file is on local drive, not on network drive.

You may verify the references in word document if presents in .chm, and verify heading levels are completely imported.

Peter,

I got it.

The .chm file has to be on a local drive for it to display content.

Good it worked:)

So let me summarize for everyone's benefit:

1. Create a new project

2. Right click Project Files and click Import Topics

3. make sure the document type is word, browse to the .docx word file, 

4. Click Open

5. Check the option of Import Max, update the header/footer master pages level to 4 in my case.

6. Click Edit

7. In the word document settings window, click Paragraph, click Automap paragraphy styles

8. Click + sign beside Paragraph, click Heading 1, on the right pane check the option of Pagination, 

9, Do the same for Heading 2, Heading 3 and Heading 4

10. Click Tocheading, and also check the option of Pagination.

11. Click - sign beside Paragraph

12, Click Charactor, check the option of Automap Character Styles, 

13. Click Table, check the option of Automap Table Styles

14. Click Other Settings, check the option of Auto-create CSS style from inline formatting and Convert References to hyperlinks

15. Click OK.

16. Click Export, save settings to an .isf file 

17. Click Next, the import will begin.

18. Click the bottom Output (SSL)

19. Double Click Microsoft HTML Help, 

20. Click Save and Generate

21. The help file will be generated.  The .chm file is located at !SSL! folder in the project folder.

22. pass .chm file to the developer to put into the software for help menu:)

23. When running .chm file to check, make sure .chm file is on local drive, not on network drive.

You may verify the references in word document if presents in .chm, and verify heading levels are completely imported.

If there is a demo or tutorial when search in Adobo convert word to .chm file in Youtube, that will save a lot of people a lot of time.

Cheers!

Lily

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Use File Explorer. 

You should generate any output to the same drive as the project anyway. 

How do I change it back to my c: drive?

Create new project automatically went to network drive.

Yes, I put it on a network drive.

I will try it on my c: drive.

Thanks,

Lily

My guess is you are putting the CHM on a network drive. They haven't worked there for 16 years.

See https://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/chm_mspatch/896358.htm

when I copy the .chm file generated by using microsoft HTML help to another location, using search, the left pane can display the topics found, right hand pane content is blank?!