Mass text changes in RoboHelp

[DhivyaRgpal]

Hi,

Can we make mass text changes in the RoboHelp Program?. We want to replace one word with another word.

Thanks

Dhivya

[Willam van Weelden]

Hi,

You can use the Robohelp Multi-File Find and Replace, or use some other find and replace tool. FAR and BKReplace are two of the most popular tools for this.

Greet,

Willam

[Peter Grainge]

The two tools Willam mentions are ones that are always recommended and they are good tools. However, be aware they search the HTML and not just what the user sees. So a search on say "body" could pick up a tag. You need to be certain the word will not be found in any HTML, build tags and suchlike.

FAR I know allows you to see each instance of the word found and then replace it or skip it. You can let it go ahead and blind replace if this problem does not affect you.

You might also need to do more than one pass if the word could be case sensitive.

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[DhivyaRgpal]

Hi,

How can I search different contents from two different .chm help files

created using the same project?

For example, my Robo search performed for a keyword from .chm file pulls out

references which are not available in the .chm rather available in the

project.

Note: Search Keyword references should come from .chm, not from project.

Thanks

Dhivya

[Willam van Weelden]

Hi,

I don't understand what you want to do. Do you want to replace certain words within your CHM output? Do you want to add search keyword synonyms? Do you want to create multiple outputs where certain terms, such as names, differ? Do you want a search functionality that searches in multiple CHM's?

Can you be more specific?

Greet,

Willam

[DhivyaRgpal]

Hi,

While performing search, I don't want keywords to be listed that are not

available in the .chm file rather available in the project files.

Thanks

Dhivya

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Dhivva.

Are you using RH8 and does your project have baggage files? If so, are the search results picking up on hits inside your baggage files? If so, read this post on my blog. If this isn't the case, can you be a little more specific. You can't change the CHM file as it is a compiled file.

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[DhivyaRgpal]

Hi

I am using RH7 Version. I have a problem with the search criteria done in

the chm file.

Will I be able to perform a search for a given keyword specific to an active

chm file?

As of now, the search gets done in a generic manner, which includes the

active project and in which the above-mentioned chm file exists.

Note: I want the search criteria done in CHM to perform the search operation

inside my CHM only and not whole project.

Could you please tell me how to resolve this?

Thanks

Dhivya

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Ok, I'm really confused now - if your project has keywords AA, BB, CC in it, then of course your CHM output is going to contain keywords AA, BB, CC. The only way I can see of only having keywords AA & BB in your CHM is to get rid of keyword CC in the project - but maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you're trying to do.

[RoboColum_n_]

Do you have a merged CHM file set-up? If so, the answer is "No".

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[DhivyaRgpal]

Hi

Thanks for your reply but is this not available in any versions of your Robo

Help for merged projects.

Thanks

Dhivya

[RoboColum_n_]

If you are using merged projects, all aspects of the projects are merged. Topic content, index, glossaries and search. There is no way around this apart from unmerging a CHM. BTW this is not a RoboHelp issue. RoboHelp uses Microsoft's HTML Help engine to generate CHMs so unless Microsoft changes that, there is no way RoboHelp - or any other help authoring tool that can generate a CHM - will do what you want.

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[DhivyaRgpal]

Hi

Will I be able to perform a search for a given keyword specific to an active

chm file?

As of now, the search gets done in a generic manner, which includes the

active project and in which the above-mentioned chm file exists.

Thanks

Dhivya