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madgedeepers10
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July 17, 2019
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Heading Numbering for PDFs

  • July 17, 2019
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How do I create incrementing Heading numbers? Currently, I have resorted to adding the Heading numbers manually and then conditionally tagging them as print_only.

This is a laborious workaround, and when I add a new topic, I have to go in and increment the numbers manually.

In Madcap Flare, there are autonumbers for styles that automatically increment when the PDFs are built.

Does RoboHelp have something similar?

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    Peter Grainge
    Peter Grainge
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    July 17, 2019

    It's not in any version I have seen but there is a workaround that's easy and that I have deployed in the past.

    Generate your printed output using a Word template rather than the CSS option. In Word, set up the styles so that they are numbered. That way you don't have to tag them out and you don't have to keep manually updating them.

    See www.grainge.org for free RoboHelp and Authoring information.

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    madgedeepers10Author
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    July 18, 2019

    Peter, where is the option to "...Generate your printed output using a Word template rather than the CSS option..." ?  I can't find what you are referring to in RH 2019

    Peter Grainge
    Peter Grainge
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    July 18, 2019

    You didn't say you were using 2019.

    That's not an option as you cannot generate a Word output in the new version at the moment. See the RoboHelp Reimagined sample project or the RoboHelp Tour on my site for more about that.

    It is an option in 2019 Classic but if your project has been done in 2019, you cannot switch back.

    You could convert your PDF to Word but all the programs that do that do not created true styles. What looks like a heading is Normal with inline styling.

    The last time I looked at Flare, what look to be Word headings are not, they are just formatted to look like them. That makes any subsequent editing of them tricky.

    See www.grainge.org for free RoboHelp and Authoring information.

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