automate macro in output

[Guest]

Hello all,

I have two macros, presently on buttons on the toolbar, that I run on the generated word output to:

- Re-format to house standard (bits lost in translation from RH)
- Remove extra spaces in hidden text (index entries) to reduce the size of the file (circa 13%).

What I am trying to achieve is for the macro to run as soon as the output has been generated. Can this be controlled via RH?

When this project comes to an end, there will be 2 people left to maintain all of the documents, and I would like to make life as easy as I can for them.

Thanks

Brian

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

I don't think this can be achieved as a macro has to manually started, as you do now, or something has to trigger it. Normally that will be opening any file or a specific file. You clearly do not want the macro to run when you open any Word file so a macro has to exist within the Word file containing the RH output. Clearly that cannot exist so I cannot see any way of doing what you want.

The best Word forum I know of is at www.wopr.com and click the link to Woody's Lounge. If you explain you want a macro to autorun on completion of a document being created by another application, you might find one of the gurus there has an idea. They are a very helpful and very clever bunch of guys.

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick response Peter.

I didn't really think I could control it via RH, but one lives in hope.

Thanks Again

Brian

[KimberlyO]

Hi, digging up an older post but has this changed at all with RoboHelp 2015? I have a macro that adds "on page #" to all of my hyperlinks within the generated Word document. (With the # replaced with the page number, of course.) I'd love to have this just run in the background!  Not that it kills me to have to manually run it. Just curious.

RoboHelp 2015 is SO much more efficient than RH10... I love, love, love it! Things that didn't work before now work flawlessly for me - things I really didn't want to take the time to figure out why they weren't working. My TOC is generated, I have custom headers/footers and page numbers... and I can embed images now. Heck, even having the darn batch generation working is amazing.

[Peter Grainge]

It changed in RoboHelp 11. See the sample project Employee Care 3. There is a topic there that explains how you can add page numbering and improve appearance in other ways.

Click Open on the RoboHelp Starter page and then click Samples in the ribbon on the left.

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