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Linking Word documents - how to include bookmarks

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September 24, 2018
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Hi guys,

I'm assuming it's possible, but I haven't had any luck.

I'm trying to use the linked Word document feature. The Word document has bookmarks inserted.

Should the bookmarks be included in the html files created by Robohelp? At the moment I'm not getting any bookmarks and I can't see any settings related to including or excluding them. Are there any tricks I need to be aware of?

RH11

Word 2013

Multiscreen HTML5

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Peter Grainge

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No tricks that I am aware of. Something is nagging about using cross references in Word rather than bookmarks. Sorry. Haven't touched this for a long time.

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Amebr

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I should clarify that I'm not including any links in the document, just the bookmarks. The request was a data dictionary that they can link to individual terms in, but the dictionary itself will be managed in a Word file, so the bookmarks need to be added in the Word file and survive the import process. I'd thought I'd seen this sort of thing work years ago, but it's been literally decades since I've worked with Word source.

Peter Grainge

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Amber

I ran a test but I was importing rather than linking, however, in this scenario I doubt it would make any difference.

I created a document and created a bookmark. When importing I left the Convert References to Hyperlinks setting unchecked. Nothing I could identify as a bookmark. I then tried again with that setting ticked, no change.

When I added a link to that bookmark and ticked the setting, the document imported with a bookmark flag in front of it.

It looks like you can't do what you want, if I have understood.

I also tried in 2019. The the bookmarked heading had an ID so it looks like it might survive in 2019. However, the ID seems to be truncated so whether it would work with multiple bookmarks is anyone's guess.

<h2><a class="generated-inline-000000" id="_Topic_1_-"></a><a class="generated-inline-000000" id="Subheading"></a><span class="DefaultParagraphFont generated-inline-000005">Topic 1 - Sub-heading</span></h2>

The bit I am still not getting is your document has bookmarks but what is the user accessing those bookmarks from?

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