Importing the word document in RoboHelp

[dsilvashelly]

Hi,

I am importing a word document into Robohelp 7 HTML. But after the import is completed, the entire word document is converted into a single HTML page. My requirement is that each chapter should be created into seperate HTML file based on the heading level. This will help in creating the book based on the heading level. I was able to do this task successfully with RoboHelp X5 but not with any other higher versions!!!!!

[RoboWizard]

Hi there

The key to this is to ensure the Word document has been styled consistently with headings and other formatting. If it's one of the garden variety where folks just painted across text all willy nilly you will indeed see mixed results.

Pay careful attention to the intermediate dialogs you see when importing the document. The second one should offer a way to split on style.

Cheers... Rick

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[dsilvashelly]

Hi,

I follow the same steps that you have mentioned. But even then I get one single HTML page for the entire word document. Does the page break or session break has to do anything to this issue. Do I need to provide breaks after each chapter.

The word heading level looks like this for example:

1. xxx

1.1 xxxx

1.2 xxxxx

1.2.1 xxxx

1.2.2 xxxx

2. xxxx

2.1 xxxx

2.1.1 xxxx

2.1.2 xxxx

2.2 xxx

2.2.1 xxx

2.2.2 xxxx

After converting the word document, the TOC is generated automatically according to the heading level. The right hand side window (in chm & WebHelp) where the HTML page is displayed, it shows a single HTML file.

[Subhash Jha]

Hi,

Your Heading styles are continued list(e.g. 1, 2, 3, ...) and RoboHelp7 convert these lists to Html-list and as per the current design of word-import, the document can't be split in-between an Html-list. This is the reason why your document is not getting split on any Heading styles.

In RoboHelp8, we have given an option “Convert Word List”, so that you can select it if you want to convert word-list to Html-list.

Since, RoboHelp7 does not give this option, so you can either upgrade to RoboHelp8 or remove list from Heading styles and then import.

Regards,
Subhash Jha.