Version Control

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I have RoboHelp HTML Version 7. We use RoboHelp for publishing our procedures; we use our Word documents for making reviews, updates, etc. and then just reimport and republish as necessary. Our company is asking us to use version control on our procedures. Since we cannot use the version control in RoboHelp, does anyone know of a version control app that can be used where we can import our docs from that app into RoboHelp? Version 7 only allows importing of Word, PDF, and HTML docs from folders on our computers or shared drives. I'm not sure if Version 8 has additional features.

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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Why can't you use RH's version control? You don't say...

It sounds more like you want to control the docs that you use that get imported into an RH project - what about something like Tortoise SVN?

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Our group essentially edits the procedures and publishes. We use the Word documents for the hundreds of team members that make the actual updates (the subject matter experts). Since they do not have access to RH, we use the Word docs for them to update and then republish in RH.

Is there a way to export a document from RH into Word other than the "Edit with Microsoft 2007" option? Our partners are so used to our Word template, that if we use the Edit With option it dramatically changes the appearance of the document (and it's not an Word document). Our template is so clean. (I've attached samples)

The first sample is our template in Word. The second sample is a document taken from RoboHelp using the "Edit with Microsoft 2007" option. There's a big difference; one is a Word doc the other an HTML doc. We’ve only recently been able to get these team members to use the correct template.

I will check out the Tortoise SVN.

I appreciate your response.

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