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arqwe
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March 16, 2011
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Import from Word- all links linking too low down so that bread crumbs don't display

  • March 16, 2011
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When I import from Word, all the links being created are linking to the topic title, instead of just to the topic:

e.g. href="CreateLineOfSight.htm #CreateLineOfSight">CreateLineOfSight</a></p></td>

As a result, whenever the topic is longish, opening the topic from the link displays it with the title at the top of the screen and the breadcrumbs hidden.

If I change the link to: href="CreateLineOfSight.htm">CreateLineOfSight</a></p></td> - without the #link , it opens properly.

Does anyone know how to import from Word so that it links as I require. And/or how to replace all these links to the topic title with just a link to the (top of the) topic?

I'm using RoboHelp 8

Thanks.

Ayelet

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    RoboAsh
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    March 16, 2011

    Hi Ayelet,

                are you converting the TOC generated inside word document itself and is the TOC generated at the TOP of the document ?

    In such a scenario the TOC generated in Word document itself is the reason for this issue as the TOC itself point to that location!

    One more thing to talk about, and that is my personal opninion is that when we move to online medium or even document for any hand held device we should keep our topics short, the reason is that even if we have bread crums those will get autoomatically hidden when we scroll down the topic if the topic is long.

    So I would suggest you

    1. Better do some style mapping to sute your online needs

    2. Paginate the topic on the basis of style (like the one that has been used to generate the TOC) so that you have smaller and manageable/viewable topics

    3. and after pagination Auto-generate the TOC inside RoboHelp after import

    4. Can also generate mini TOC for better navigation, if you map your style to Headings style of RoboHelp and create mini TOC in the topic if it is long in place of the TOC generated in word

    Ashish

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    arqweAuthor
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    March 16, 2011

    Thanks for your advice. Thing is I need a quick fix - don't have time to break up topics into smaller topics, and I don't have time to create a whole project layout in the project manager and then generate a toc based on this (is there an easy way to create the layout in the topic other than moving the hundreds of topics manually into folders). You asked whether my word TOC is generated at the TOP of the document - is that a significant detail?

    Thanks.

    Ayelet

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    RoboAsh
    Participating Frequently
    March 16, 2011

    Hey Ayelet,

                 I think you miss took me you do not need to move anything here and there, there is a feature in RoboHelp to break the large word documents into smaller topics and you get this option while importing .

    When you import any word document you get the two windows

    1. first one called "Content setting" from where you must be converting the TOC

    2. second one which is called Import and on this dialog you will find the "Edit" button and on clicking it you get the Conversion setting dialog

    This Conversion setting dialog show all the paragraphs in your word document that you are importing and you can select any of them to break the large documents into smaller topic (by selecting pagination check box)

    a new topic is generated from the start of every style that you selected for pagination.

    and TOC auto create is a functionality of RoboHelp that you can find by right clicking on the TOC POD.

    so you do not require any Herculean task to achieve this and you might also find some useful features inside this Conversion setting dialog too like glossary conversion!

    Ashish

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