Help index prob. going from RH4 to RH5.5

[Elizabeth Kane <bkane -at- ARTISOFT -dot- COM>]

     Hello,
     I'm desperate to find a solution to a RoboHELP problem. I've
     already posted a message to robolist, but haven't gotten any
     responses and time is of the essence! Maybe one of you can help. I
     called Blue Sky and got nowhere. (BTW, they usually do solve my RH
     problems quickly.)

     The problem is that I'm using RH 5.5 to edit a huge multi-project
     help project that I developed in RH 4. When I change a topic name
     or index entry, it shows those entries listed differently in the
     index -- with colons.

     This style in itself may not be bad, but regenerating doesn't
     automatically change all the other index entries to this new style.
     They're still in there, with commas separating level 1 and 2 index
     entries. So now I have a mixture of index styles, and makes the
     new-style index entries appear out of alphabetical order! This
     cripples usability.

     What I'm really looking for is a way to _automatically_ make all
     the index entries consistent, with either colons OR commas. If I
     have to go into every document and make changes to every index
     entry one by one, it will take too long, as this project contains
     31 doc files within 15 separate Help projects, which are linked by
     the master contents setup.

     If the fix can only be done manually in every doc file, I may have
     wasted my money buying RH 5.5. I'll have to go back to RH 4. Far as
     I'm concerned, if there's no easy workaround, this is a MAJOR BUG.

     Thanks so much for your help,

     Beth Kane
     Senior Technical Writer
     Artisoft, Tucson
     bkane -at- artisoft -dot- com