Style Sheets for Imported Word Documents: Adobe RoboHelp Classic 2019 vs Adobe RoboHelp 2019

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September 1, 2021
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Is it possible to keep style sheets intact when importing Word documents into Adobe RoboHelp 2019?

I am currently upgrading a project from Adobe RoboHelp Classic 2019 to Adobe RoboHelp 2019. In Classic 2019, RoboHelp created an individual style sheet for each imported document. Those individual style sheets carried over when I upgraded the project, but Adobe RoboHelp 2019 has not created new style sheets for any additional Word documents that I have imported after the project was upgraded. Instead, the program wants to use style sheets that are already present within the project.

The reason having individual style sheets for each document would be ideal is that this project includes content from different teams. It's difficult to apply a universal style sheet (or even several style sheets) because the teams use different styles.

Thank you!

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Peter Grainge

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The logic changed when RoboHelp moved from Classic to New UI.

In Classic a CSS file was created for the whole topic.
In the New UI RoboHelp attempts to match the styles in the CSS set in the import dialog and only creates a CSS for those styles it cannot map.

Most users in Classic wanted their imported Word documents to look like their existing topics, they wanted the content.

If you look at Topic Properties > General and see only one CSS it means that RoboHelp was able to map all the styles used. It's likely you will see a second CSS with the styles that could not be mapped.

It's explained more in RH2019 Importing/Linking Word/Fm Docs (grainge.org)

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Amebr

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What happens if you delete the value from the CSS for style mapping field? Does that create individual css files for you?

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