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Robohelp 11-Link Word documents

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March 9, 2017
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Hi

I am using RH 11 and I am trying to generate a help system from an already existing Word documents by linking them.

I don’t know how making a TOC from the documents.

I get all the topics and subtopics on level 1, without grouping them into books.

Is there a way to make RH generate the multi-level TOC from the linked document?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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SaraHovaAuthor

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Yes, you are right, thanks.

Peter Grainge

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In the first paragraph you talk of documents but in the final paragraph you talk of document (singular).

The Auto Create TOC works on folders and bookmarks so it would create a book for each folder. You could create a folder for each linked document. That would be a start and bookmarks would give a further level of indentation. Beyond that, it becomes more manual.

With each document in a folder, you can then view the Topic List to just see the topics from one folder (document). That might make the manual element easier.

Hope that helps.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring information

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SaraHovaAuthor

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Thanks for your answer.

There are more than 100 word documents.

I need to keep them separate because I also publish them independently one by one.

So, the only way the Auto Create TOC works is creating a folder for each document, isn't it?

Thanks,

Captiv8r

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Yeah, that's the dialog I was referring to, But for some reason, because I saw the option very near the CSS option, I was thinking that it was only referring to the CSS and not the Word document itself.

A while ago I was in my studio and looking at my older version of RoboHelp and it's identical on this. So I was having a big ole brain fart!

Glad Paul solved the mystery for you.

Cheers... Rick

And it occurs to me that the default option for linking is to link by reference. One has to specifically visit that dialog and intentionally choose to do the copy thing.

That makes me wonder if perhaps you are mistaken in your belief that you are always creating a copy?

What are you seeing that leads you to conclude that you haven't been linking by reference all along?

Cheers... Rick

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