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Re: Matching up Word Styles to Robohelp Prinited Documents, exporting Word Reveal Style-type Info
Subject:Re: Matching up Word Styles to Robohelp Prinited Documents, exporting Word Reveal Style-type Info From:"Peter Grainge" <pgforums -at- gmx -dot- com> To:Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com, "Gregory P Sweet" <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us> Date:Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:54:04 +0100
Jessica's suggestion is clearly what you need but something I found some
time back can be useful in a different way.
Go to Word's Advanced Options and set a Style Area Pane width, then open
the RoboHelp supplied Style Mapping template and set Word to Draft View.
You will see the style names on the left and examples in the document.
That only works as far as styles already in use is concerned but it is
still useful.
Now to another point. There is information on my site about printed
documentation and I caution about using "home-brewed" templates with
RoboHelp. Theoretically there is no reason you should not create your own
from scratch and many do so without any difficulty. However, on the
RoboHelp forums I have often helped fix problems simply by switching from
the posters template to the RoboHelp supplied template. What I recommend
instead is taking the Style Mapping template and adapting that to suit
your needs.
Peter Grainge
www.grainge.org
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