Oh oh, guess we'll need to be posting in Esperanto if you guys keep this up ... View more

I feel your pain... Thats exactly the reason I'm busy eradicating all Word documentation. Once you completely imported the word document, lock it, so no one can change it. They'll have to ask you to make changes in RoboHelp. Power to the RoboHelp user! Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, 500+ pages, how did it come so far, I wonder. Is it impressive, or just plain Word-torture 'Merging styles' is just a trick. Instead of having three styles with the same (or almost the same) style, simply create one style and add multiple classes to it: bullitStyle1, bulletStyle2, bulletStyle3, and so on. You can apply these three styles separate, but they have the same styling. This is just a quick fix for styles, it doesn't solve your import problem. You quickly set the different styles to the same (correct) style. I have a rather troubled relation with Word (mostly how others style the documents they send me) and I would never import a word document... But in your case it makes sense. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Sorry for my other post, by rereading your post, I seem to have been confused. -- Apart from the question why you would want to import a Word document, you can simply merge the styles in your style sheet. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hmmm, souds like a bug to me. Better report it <a href=" http://www.Adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&amp;product=38"RoboHelp Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form</a>. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, I completely understand your reasons, and for all my colleages (except 1), only the thought of html is terrifying. Still remains that I code a list in html much faster than I can use the RoboHelp styles to create a list. My colleages use the same method of work you use, to avoid any future problems. You're right about the multi level lists, but even though they are crap, I think they provide the best forward compatibility for future versions of RoboHelp, for not so technical technical authors. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, My guess is that it is some add on that is interfering with the TOC. Bughunter was pain, if I remember correct. Try disabling your add ons to see if that helps. I'm using Firefox 3.5.2 without any problems. Greet, Willam ... View more

LOL, Today Peter, you're my hero Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, "You can add something to your topics that changes the CSS used when the user prints a single topic." What you're looking for is a print style sheet. Instead of just attaching a style sheet, you add media="print" to the style sheet. The browser will use this style sheet for printing, instead of your normal style sheet. If you haven't defined a media for your other style sheet, the print style sheet should overwrite your normal style sheet. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, I don't know if your cum laude Amebr. The methods you describe are the most common methods of working with list in RoboHelp, but are not the preferred and correct method of working with lists. In all these cases, the list style is defined trough the list element (li). If you want to style a list, you normally style the list itself, not the items in the list. It's like buying a red closet, but since you want it to be blue, you paint every piece yourself, instead of buying a blue closet altogether. Most RoboHelp lists I see are build like this: <ul>      <li class=p-text><p class=text>Text</p></li> </ul> The browser take the default list style for the list, in this case a bullet (the red closet), but because the list item (the blue paint) may be defined otherwise. The correct way is ofcourse to buy the blue closet: <ul class=text>      <li><p>123</li></p> </ul> This way, the browser will not take the default list style, but correctly apply the list style you define. You can still apply paragraph and list classes, but you only have to define the unique elements for every item. This keeps your code and your style sheet smaller and easier to maintain. I'm fully aware that RoboHelp doesn't fully support this yet, but for the time being, I'd recommend using Robo's multi level lists, since they result in valid HTML and will probably be easily converted to full fledged lists in some version still to come. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Can you post a RoboHelp topic where you have these problem? I'll take a look to see if I can find anything. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, For Google Chrome, you'll have to use the Crome Fix. See Snippet 103 on Peter's site. As for Firefox 3.5, I don't have any problems when using RoboHelp 7.03.001. Do you mean firefox 3.5 or later, or versions before 3.0? Greet, Willam Message was edited by: Peter Grainge to correct link (didn't appear) ... View more

Hi, Can you post a topic with such a list. If I see the topic, I may be able to come up with a solution. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Using a DIV object is a far better way of aligning content. A div is nothing more than a container that you position withing a html page. Read some more here. I don't know how your aligning-table is build, but you can probably use a find and replace to make your table into a div object. A faster and more reliable way of scaling your pages then using a script, is to create a printing style sheet. In this style sheet, you just give different styles. Using a import-statement (@import url("fineprint.css") print;) in your style sheet, you're sure that this style sheet is only used for printing.- You could start by trying to set the width of the table you use from 750px to 100%. Note: You can also specify the print style sheet in every topic, but I find that RoboHelp gives problems whenever I try to assign two or more style sheets to a topic. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Can you post the html code of such a list? Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, The font-family and font-size control the font and the font size. To control the list style, you need list-style-type. You only have to define this with the list itself (ol and ul), of with the list item (li). Defining the list-style-type for a paragrapgh won't do anything in xhtml (robo8). Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Can you post a html file where you get this alert? I can't think of anything right now, but if you post a file, maybe we can see what's going on. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, The best advice I can think off is to visit the sites of Rick and Peter and get some info there. Those sites contain a vast amount of tips, best practices and problem descriptions. My guess is that you use Robohelp HTML, if that's the case: Mmake your life easy and use snippets and variables for easy maintanence and always use styles from a stylesheet. Never use inline styling (most other option on the formatting toolbar), unless you want a lot of work when you discover a certain style is giving you problems. This will require you to create a rather large style sheet, but that pays off in maintenance when your project has over a thousand topics. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, From a glance in you CSS, my guess is that your problem is not in the style sheet. Please check the html of a faulty list. It probably has a paragraph class attached, but not a list class.  It probably looks something like this: <ol>      <li><p class=CGRoundBullet>Your text<p></li> </ol> Since you haven't specified a list style within the list itself, or within the list item, the browser uses the default for an ordered list. To correct this, use a search and replace tool to replac all instances of <li><p class=CGRoundBullet> with <li class=p-CGRoundBullet><p class=CGRoundBullet>. You'll have to do this search and replace for every list style that is causing problems. Note that the correct list class is always p- followed by the exact paragraph name. If you want more help, please post back the html of a faulty list. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi Rick, Not the Roboflavor post, but the one before that, no 11. But for the record: I use RoboHTML. There are some things in life that I don't want anything to do with, and RoboHelp for Word is probably one of them Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi Rick, In your New PNP project, do you have a tooltip on the image? I checked it again this morning, and this is what I got: I inserted an image (a jpg, trough the menu) and remove the alt text in html mode. RoboHelp just adds it again, but no harm done. Next, I output WebHelp and WebHelp Pro. Both now have the filename as the alt text. This happens when generating with the W3C compliant Topics option checked and unchecked. Next, I outputted a CHM, with default options. In the source, the alt text has been completely removed, so I don't see tooltip. I'm wondering why your CHM page does have an alt attribute. If you see a tooltip (the standard windows tooltip), without having added the title element, it must be the alt text, or you may have defined a custom tooltip using a div object or a javascript. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Adding the title for every element will prevent the alt text from being shown in IE. To save yourself some time, I think you best use a search and replace tool to add an empty title or a tigle with only a space to every image. I haven't tested this, but it should work. You'll have to find all al="" occurences in your source files, and replace them with alt="" title="" . Backup your files, since I haven't tested this, I don't know how RoboHelp will react to empty titles. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, @Rick. The problem is not with the source files... RoboHelp inserts the alt text empty (alt=""), but when you generate, it sets the filename of the image for every alt text that you haven't set. That's why you'll need to decompile the CHM. Since it uses Internet Explorer to view the content, you'll have to hack the auto filled alt text from the output files. I don't know why Robo works this way, but it does... Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, What you are experiencing is a bug in Internet Explorer 7 and below. I don't know if it's still in IE 8, but my guess is that it is... You will not experience this behaviour in a standard compliance browser as Firefox. What happens is that this tooltip isn't actually a tooltip. In XHTML (Robo 8, not 7), the alt attribute is a required attribute. This alt text is the text that the browser displays when it cannot load the image. It is also the text that a screen reader will read instead of the image. The tooltip text is positioned in the title attribute, which RoboHelp does use for the tooltip. Since the alt attribute is required, RoboHelp fills this alt text with the filename of your image. This filename isn't supposed to show as a tooltip, but because of a rendering bug/?feature? in Internet Explorer, the alt text shows as a tooltip. Removing these texts may not be intuitive. I couldn't find a window in RoboHelp that allows you to set the alt text. You can set the alt text in HTML mode (alt="your text"), but this requires that you set the text manually for every image. You can also add the screen tip, which will sow a tooltip, but avoids the alt text being shown by Internet Explorer. If you want to completely remove the tooltips, even from IE, you can use some kind of find and replace tool to replace all alt="filename" attributes with alt="". Your output will still be valid XHTML. For WebHelp, this isn't too hard, but for you CHM, you'll first have to decompile your CHM, replace the alt attribute and then recompile your output. You can use the Microsoft HTML workshop, but I've never tried recompiling a decompiled CHM. Another forum member may have more experience with that. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, In which browsers do you see the tooltips? Is it only Internet Explorer, or do you also see it in other browsers? Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, The link you're creating is relative from the path your source files are stored. Because the link is external, RoboHelp cannot update your link, so your link won't work. When you make an external link, you must either use a hard address, such as "http://www.adobe.com" or make a relative link, which is relative from the published location. Say that you have two projects, in project 1 you create the link ../project_2/project_2.htm. This link will take the parent directory of the topic, then the directory project_2 and open the file project_2.htm. When you create these relative links, your links will only work on the published (or test) server/directory. Also note that you can use a hard address for files on network drives (ie g:\123.txt), but that will require every user to have access to this drive, and every user must have the same drive letter assigned to the network drive. I suggest that you use relative paths, but it'll require some planning. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Notepad only supports plain text, so you'll have to copy and paste the HTML code of the tables and that’s the thing you want to avoid. The tables you use are a mess (sort of), so to ensure that your tables have the correct style, remake them in RoboHelp. It may be more work than cut and paste, but you're certain to have the correct table format this time. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, You don't want to work from a network drive, RoboHelp works best (read: only works ) with source files stored locally. It's best to backup your source files on a regular basis, or use some kind of source. Personally, I use Visual Source Safe with RoboHelp for easy backups and history of my source files. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, You probably want to add the content into a Snippet and use that Snippet on every page. This will create a link to the snippet and when you output your project, the snippet is replaced with actual content. You will see the content and can quickly open the snippet from the topic. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Sorry that I wasn't clear enough earlier. You do apply a style, but you should know that a class is not a style. Say that you have three different kind of paragraphs, footer, header and body-text. You select a style from the style menu, but for HTML, a paragraph is just a paragraph, there's no difference between the three. The class is style class from your style sheet that you use to control how the paragraph is displayed. Greets, Willam ... View more