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Ordered List formatting after Word import
Our main issue is the numbering of ordered lists.
Here is more or less the work process that we used trying to figure out how numbering and lists work in this tool.
1. Imported Word document, a User Manual, which, of course, has thousands of lines of ordered lists, at Level 1 (decimal) and Level 2 (lower-case alpha).
2. When we imported the file, we selected (checked) the option of converting lists to HTML lists; we thought that this would convert the Word numbers to the ol, list, /ol HTML syntax so the ordered lists would work in Robohelp.
This did not work. The option "Convert to Autonumber" also did not work.
3. We therefore proceeded to try to make new ordered list styles to manually replace the imported Styles.
4. Unfortunately, in our experience, the numbering functions of Robohelp simply do not work for us. We do not know what we are doing wrong. Here is what we are doing:
a. In the top Toolbar, click on "Multi level List Styles" and select 1 >a > 1.
The system generates an AlphaNumeric style.
b. We format the numbering for Level 1 and Level 2 with indents, etc.
When we apply this format to existing lists that were imported it changes, but only at one Level. When we do Indent from Properties, the number fails to change to a letter.
Anyway, this is only a short summary. I personally am wasting hours trying to get the numbering to work doing all kinds of endless variations and nothing seems to help. We get new styles created like "Decimal" and "ol" and others. These styles seem to disappear suddenly. The Levels do not work. When tried to make individual styles, this seemed also to corrupt the content.
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