Setting to Change Width of Topic

[SandraDCF]

In the past, I imported several Word documents to create topics for my RoboHelp project. Recently, I had to import a new Word document, using the same Word template I'd created. However, when I imported it, I noticed that once imported, that topic width was only half of that of the previous topic. Why did this happen? How can I fix it so it's consistent with the others?

This is how all the other topics look and how the new one should look:

This is how the new topic looks:

It almost looks like it's been mobile optimized, reformatted for an iPhone.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

This is the output - you need to have a look at your RH topics to look at one that is "right" and one that is "wrong" to figure out what snuck in on your recent import.

[Peter Grainge]

New one on me.

Double check page size of doc and template.

Check HTML of topic.

Temporarily apply a different CSS.

Pray.

Peter Grainge

www.grainge.org

@petergrainge

[Amebr]

If the content is in a table, you might just need to right-click on the table and select AutoFit > AutoFit to window. This will set the width to 100%. Otherwise you can set a specific width in the Table Properties dialog box.

[Peter Grainge]

Sandra. You have marked a couple of replies as helpful but has the problem been solved?

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[SandraDCF]

Not yet but I am documenting everything I've tried. I'll let you know once it's resolved.

[SandraDCF]

This has been resolved. The issue was that, at some point, I must have inadvertently saved one of my Word documents as a .doc (the old file format of MS Word) instead of a .docx document, and was then continuing to import .doc files into RoboHelp. That was why my new topics weren't displaying properly; docx is a much better output format.

The RoboHelp topics I'd created previously, which were fine, were all .docx. So now I am careful to use only .docx files.