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Anonymous
July 8, 2010
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Transform a Word document into a RoboHelp7 project

  • July 8, 2010
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Hi all,

One question: Is it possible to transform a Word document into a RoboHelp7 project besides copy and paste from the document into the project?

Thank you

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    Captiv8r
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    July 8, 2010

    Hi there

    Unfortunately there is no "one click  operation" that will magickally transform a Word document into a  project. But you may create a project in RoboHelp 7, then import a Word  document to populate the topics.

    Here's a bit on why  it's impossible. A project consists of much more than what is contained  in the Word document. For example, in RoboHelp HTML, a project consists  of a main project file, all the HTML pages, a file containing the Table  of Contents data, a file containing the Index data and numerous other  files that handle all sorts of bits and pieces of the project.

    My memory of RoboHelp for Word is vague at best, but there are similar issues there. (You didn't say which product you were using)

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    July 9, 2010

    Hi Rick,

    Thank you for your response.

    Sorry for not giving enough details about what I am using. I tried something with RoboHelp7 and it did not quite work out, and as I have now the trial of RoboHelp8, I gave it a try and found that nice feature that was not available in RoboHelp7, import a project from Word. I thought that this was it, however it does import the Word document in one sole htm file with a kind of TOC. It does not manage to "break" the one file in several htm files, which would be the features from the TOC. I was guessing that as it already does this, it would not be too big a problem to also "break" the one file by topics in several htm files.

    Now I have to do it myself "manually", i.e. copy topics and paste them into different htm files.

    It is a lot of work, especially when you have a big project, which I do, but... that is life. Never get bored, eh? And never say that you are tired, right?

    Have a great weekend,

    Bogdan

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    July 9, 2010

    When you import, one of the dialogs allows you to tick Paginate against various styles. You need to do that for all the styles you want RoboHelp to use to start new topics.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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