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April 27, 2009
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Missing Search Tab

  • April 27, 2009
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I'm working on an HTMLHelp project in RH8 and for the life of me, I cannot get it to display a search tab. I've checked and double-checked that I have the Search tab option selected in the window. When that failed to produce results, I created a new window and, once again, made sure the option was selected, but still no joy. Finally, I created a completely new project with just a couple of topics, and I selected the Search tab option there, but still nothing.

For the record, the option I'm selecting is the Search tab option in the Tri-pane Tabs and Windows section on the Window Properties screen. Am I forgetting something? Doing something wrong?

Can anyone help? I would really appreciate it.

Best wishes.

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Peter Grainge
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April 28, 2009

I'm a bit busy right now but wasn't there another post on this same subject recently?


See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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TamazzeAuthor
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April 28, 2009

It's possible that there was another post on the same subject recently, but if so, I wasn't able to find it. I searched the forums, and the most recent post I found for a missing search tab was one from August 2007. I followed the suggestions from that post to create a new window, but as I mentioned, it didn't help.

Everything else in the project seems fine -- TOC, index, glossary. It's just the search tab that's missing. Recreating the project wouldn't be a problem, but I can't get a search tab in a new project either, so I'm obviously doing something wrong, or something else is going on. I'm open to any suggestions of things to try!

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April 28, 2009

sorry-wrong post