TOC not in numerical order (RH7)

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December 16, 2010
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My client wants the section numbers from his user manual left in (not stripped out) so that they show up in the help topics. In my Project Manager tab, the topics for the imported chapter files are in the correct numerical order, but in the auto-generated TOC they are hopelessly mixed up. Also, several of the numbers seem to be overwritten with "IX". What a useless mess!

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Captiv8r

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If you want a Table of Contents that is laid out exactly as you see it in the Project Manager pod, create a totally new one that is blank. Then just click and drag topics from the Project Manager pod to the TOC pod.

Not sure what to advise on the IX issue.

Cheers... Rick

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Thanks so much for your response! So you're saying that, instead of the tool auto-creating a TOC which simply mirrors the Project Manager tab, I have to drag over 300 individual topics one by one to get the order I need. That seems so lame. Oh well, I guess I'll start dragging.

Captiv8r

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Sorry, but yes that's the way it works. At least in that version of RoboHelp and earlier. I believe RoboHelp 8 changes this and allows creating a TOC that mirrors the Project Manager pod. Assuming you are using the ability of the pod to order topics as you want.

If you want to clear the TOC and display the Topic List (View > Pods > Topic List) you can sort the Topic List as you want, then select all the topics inside and drag them to the TOC to easily create the TOC.

Maybe that will be simpler for you.

Cheers... Rick

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