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May 3, 2015
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Is RoboHelp for Word packaged with RoboHelp 11?

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Is RoboHelp for Word packaged with RoboHelp 11?

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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May 3, 2015

No. The last version to include Rh for Word was Rh10. Is there a specific reason for wanting to stick with Rh for Word? There is a learning curve with Rh HTML but it shouldn't be too difficult.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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CDM_in_NJ
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May 9, 2016

I have a lot of RoboHelp 9.0 files and projects, and need to update some of them.  Unfortunately, I lost RoboHelp 9 for Word when my company upgraded us to Word 2010, and gave me a new laptop (on which Word 2007 and RH for Word 9 had never been installed). 

I now have a license for RH 11, but apparently it does not come with RoboHelp for Word.  And I can't go back to my old RH because it was on a different PC and wasn't compatible with Word 2010.

So here is my question:  HOW can I update the HUGE projects that I had in the old RH9/Word 2007 environment?  I read on here that RH HTML 11 cannot open old RH for Word projects, and I do not want to have to recreate the wheel of my content.

Any advice will be gratefully appreciated.

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prhmusic2
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May 10, 2016

I didn’t realize this yesterday, but in RH 2015, there is a WebHelp to CHM Converter script that has this description: “This is the script file which shows an UI for generating CHM using the webhelp output.”

I don’t know if RH 11 has this script available, but if it does, you could convert your WebHelp output to a CHM file and then use the FAR tool to decompile the CHM into a HTML Help project. That would have a project file you could then open in RH 11.

I used to work A LOT in RoboHelp for Word and it wasn’t until Microsoft declared that Vista wouldn’t support .HLP files that I went (screaming & kicking) into HTML-based Help. I had ~100 WinHelp projects (all using Word as my content editor) that I had to convert to HTML.

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