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Anonymous
September 4, 2013
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Many topics linked to Word files in RoboHelp 10

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Is RoboHelp 10 robust enough to cope with a large project that has the majority of its topics linked to their own individual Word file?

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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September 4, 2013

Hi there

Typically, a "topic" is a reasonably short container of data. Often, just a few paragraphs and sometimes longer than that. It varies.

So are you asking if RoboHelp would support a situation where perhaps you had 100 different topics with each topic residing in its own Microsoft Word document?

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous
September 4, 2013

Cheers Rick. I think that about sums it up.

RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
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September 4, 2013

Before we sail our reputations down the river, what do you mean by "robust enough" and "large project"?

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Anonymous
September 4, 2013

Apologies. Perhaps some background information may help.

My company produces a suite of software products and the online Help (created in RoboHelp) covers all of these, including the installation instructions. Therefore, the RoboHelp project is a very large one, containing hundreds of topics.

We have just upgraded to RoboHelp 10 (RH10) from RH9 and I am starting the project from scratch. Because the project information is originally created in Word, and by a number of sources, I am investigating the possibility of linking nearly all of the topics to these Word files to make it easier and quicker to create and update the project. I was wondering if having a lot of these links may possibly lead to instability in the program (as we experienced with RH9), in which case I would import the content from the Word files into RH10 instead.

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 4, 2013

Linking is more restrictive and personally I would put the time into creating topics in Rh. I haven't tried but I'm thinking it should be possible to create a project from linked documents and then import those topics into another project. That way you have the topics but have broken the link. Worth a try.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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