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Jenny_Lucas
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April 11, 2011
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Formatting topics as tables

  • April 11, 2011
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Morning everyone!

I have a project in Robohelp 8.0.2. I have 4 printed documents that I can generate, each containing different subsets of topics.

For one document, I want to do an FAQ. But the requirement is that I have each topic in a row of a table.

To be clear

I have created a CSS that gives me:

TOPIC1 TITLE (defined as H1)

     Topic1 content

TOPIC2 TITLE

     Topic2 content

The goal is to get this:

QuestionAnswer
TOPIC 1 TITLETopic1 content
TOPIC 2 TITLETopic2 content


Is that possible? Suggestions on how to approach this?

Thanks in advance!

Jenny

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 11, 2011

The printed documentation functionality is designed to give you what you have online. What you want is very different in that the table will contain more than one topic and each topic will be split into different columns.

I cannot think of any way of doing that from RoboHelp. I believe it is something you will have to rearrange in Word.

It is putting it into a table that is the killer. You could have different topics in print and then quickly amalgamate them by removing page breaks. That and some thought on the heading styles in the Word template.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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MergeThis
MergeThis
Inspiring
April 12, 2011

I guess Snippets would be your solution. Create the snippets for each (topic heading and topic content), then add the snippets in the related topic as well as the table rows in your FAQ topic.

Good luck,

Leon

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