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May 10, 2010
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Extra bullets appear before and after drop-down text in Word

  • May 10, 2010
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I just finished upgrading to RoboHelp 8.0.2 from RoboHelp 7.  I generated one of my projects to WebHelp and Word.  The WebHelp version is fine.  I'm having trouble with the printed documentation in Word.    I'm using RoboHelp HTML and Microsoft Office Word 2003.

I have bulleted-lists in RoboHelp that have DHTML drop-down hotspots applied to them.  When generated to Word using RoboHelp 7, I had no issues. The hotspot and text are generated to Word correctly.   When generating with RoboHelp 8 extra lines are added after the drop-down hotspot text.  The extra line is showing up with a bullet and no text follows it.  I wouldn't mind the extra line as much if the bullet was not appearing as well. In some places an extra line with a bullet also appears after the text that was part of the drop-down in RoboHelp.

I use drop-down hotspots in all of my RoboHelp User Guide Projects, so it is not realistic for me to remove the extra line and bullet every time I generate.  Any suggestions on how to fix this?

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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May 11, 2010

Welcome to the forum.

Can you create this in a single topic project that you can send via my Contact page?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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May 12, 2010

Based on the information I received from Peter Grainge, I completed the following steps.  The Bulleted-List issue was fixed, but not the numbered-lists.

1.        Make sure your RoboHelp project is not opened.

2.        Open up the default.css style sheet for your project in Notepad.

3.        Search for the following text:

P.Numbered-List {

   list-style: decimal;

   text-indent: -;

   margin-left: 0pt;

}

4.        Replace with the following text:

/*P.Numbered-List {

   list-style: decimal;

   text-indent: -;

   margin-left: 0pt;

}*/

5.        Search for the following text:

P.Bulleted-List {

   list-style: disc;

   margin-left: -6pt;

}

6.        Replace with the following text:

/*P.Bulleted-List {

   list-style: disc;

   margin-left: -6pt;

}*/

7.        Open up your RoboHelp Project

8.        Go to Edit : Find and Replace Files

9.        Search for:  <li><p class="Bulleted-List">

10.     Replace with: <li class="Bulleted-List"><p>

11.     Now do another search and replace.

12.     Search for: <li><p class="Numbered-List">

13.     Replace with: <li class="Numbered-List"><p>

14.     Remove any extra lines that appear at the end of the drop-down text.

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