mk:@MSITStore

Hi Todd,

I can't say I found THE solution, but as of this morning, I was able to open my CHM without getting the error. Here's all that's happened since the last post:

1. I sent my project folder to Adobe. I did have illegal characters in the file names......hyphens. I replaced all the hyphens with an underscore, saved and closed the project, then deleted the cpd file and opened the project again.

2. Adobe sent back an edited project that I was able to open without getting the error, but the TOC was not right. The merged projects were inside books pertaining to the main project. The minute I moved them to the left so that they would be at the proper level, the error came back. I remembered reading another post that said they had fixed the problem by placing the merged project inside a book. I created a book, inserted the merged project, and did not get the error after generating. Only glitch was that I now had a book inside a book. I opened the subproject and removed the top-level book, and placed the default topic page at the top. Opened the main project, removed and readded the subproject inside the book in the main project, generated and got no errors. I will repeat this process for the remaining subprojects.

3. Reformatted my computer and reinstalled everything from scratch. I don't know if this helped or not, but I was running out of ideas.

My guess is that the merged project should be placed inside a book in the main project's TOC. You'll just have to rearrange the subprojects TOCs so you don't have books inside books.

I wish you much luck,

Jennifer

Hi John,

Thanks for getting back to me. The real message I'm getting is:
The file mk:@MSITStore:C:HTML Build\ProPricer\Help\winpps.chm::/winpps.hhc contains an invalide HTML tag.
winpps is my main project. I can view all of the individual sub-projects without the message. If I remove the merged projects from winpps, I do not get this message. There is one project I can merge without receiving the message. That CHM is WhatsNew. I did as you suggested and opened the winpps.hhc file. The code for including What's New is:

<object type="text/sitemap">
<param name="Name" value="WhatsNew.chm::/WhatsNew.hhc">
<param name="Merge" value="WhatsNew.chm::/WhatsNew.hhc">
</object>

The code for one of the other merged CHM files is:

<object type="text/sitemap">
<param name="Name" value="impexp.chm::/impexp.hhc">
<param name="Merge" value="impexp.chm::/impexp.hhc">
</object>

I can't see a difference. The code is the same for the other merged projects as well.

Since the message doesn't occur within the individual projects, I think it has to do with merging them into winpps, but the winpps.hhc file is not giving me any clues.

Thanks again,

Jennifer