Question
Import Word Documents and Merging Projects
Hello Everyone.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
My department has several true Training Manuals that have the same Word .dot file governing how things look. Besides the .dot file, tables are utilized to ensure consistent spacing and alignment of the "Procedures" covered and images displayed in the manual.
My predicessor used v5 of RoboHelp and has created the .css and .htt files for the htm pages. My delema is every page needs to be updated to match the Word training manuals after a major update to all the files involved. I do not believe converting the v5 project would be very helpful and trying to remove the old information seems to make alot of cleanup work.
I have ran into many issues when trying to update a page in the past and have basically given into doing a line-by-line compare of RoboHelp and Word to make updates. There has to be a better way.
I have v7 loaded which includes RH for Word. My PC has Word 2003.
Here are my questions:
1) What is it best way to create a new RoboHelp project for this task?
2) What is the best way to import the document so the original Word formats stay true?
3) Is it better to have each manual in its own project?
4) If each manual is its own project, how do you get the merge project to work? I keep getting blank output when I try to merge projects. It does not seem to matter if I use WebHelp or HTML Help.
Thanks for any suggestions you my have.
Julie
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
My department has several true Training Manuals that have the same Word .dot file governing how things look. Besides the .dot file, tables are utilized to ensure consistent spacing and alignment of the "Procedures" covered and images displayed in the manual.
My predicessor used v5 of RoboHelp and has created the .css and .htt files for the htm pages. My delema is every page needs to be updated to match the Word training manuals after a major update to all the files involved. I do not believe converting the v5 project would be very helpful and trying to remove the old information seems to make alot of cleanup work.
I have ran into many issues when trying to update a page in the past and have basically given into doing a line-by-line compare of RoboHelp and Word to make updates. There has to be a better way.
I have v7 loaded which includes RH for Word. My PC has Word 2003.
Here are my questions:
1) What is it best way to create a new RoboHelp project for this task?
2) What is the best way to import the document so the original Word formats stay true?
3) Is it better to have each manual in its own project?
4) If each manual is its own project, how do you get the merge project to work? I keep getting blank output when I try to merge projects. It does not seem to matter if I use WebHelp or HTML Help.
Thanks for any suggestions you my have.
Julie
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