Importing Existing Help Projects into HTML Help

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October 27, 2006
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I am building a new help system for a piece of software my company sells. The old/existing help files are in WinHelp4 or WinHelp 2000. I cannot figure out how to import these project files into the HTML Help project I have created. I followed the help's steps of going to File > New Project > Import, however this causes an entirely new HTML project to be created from the old help files instead of importing them into the HTML project I have started.

If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it.

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kellyhouser533Author

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Peter,

I am importing the Word files now, but all my numbering and bulleting is being lost on the import, which is costing me a lot of editing time. I was hoping there was a way to import the project and retain the formatting.

Peter Grainge

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That's one of the pitfalls covered in the topic!

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RoboColum_n_

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So if you originally had several hundred winhelp files, what would be wrong with having several hundred HTML Help projects? You could use RH's master and slave project functionality to produce a single help file at the end but with a project the size of yours I'd highly recommend spliting it up in any case. You can import multiple word files if you can convert your winhelp .RTF files to .DOC. The trouble is that you will probably loose a lot (e.g. toc, index keywords, etc.).

Peter Grainge

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Could you not import the Word documents that underpin the hlp files?

There's a topic on my site that may help with avoiding some of the pitfalls of this approach.

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kellyhouser533Author

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Colum,

But there are several hundred Winhelp files that must be consolidated into the new HTML help system...it would create an HTML project for each one of those. It does not give me the option of starting a project from multiple winhelp files or I would start over.

RoboColum_n_

Legend

Hi kellyhouser533. If you'd have created a new RH project and imported the old winhelp files at the same time you'd be well on your way by now. As you've already created the RH project you're options for importing the winhelp file are more limited. If you haven't gone too far, I'd suggest starting from scratch, creating a new project and in the process click on the "Import" tab where it allows you to specify the location of your winhelp file. This method saves you a load of time and headaches later on.

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