Converting to RoboHelp from other source file materials (HelpScribble and PowerPoint)

I am recommending RoboHelp as the help authoring software for a suite of applications that I am documenting. Currently they are documented (kind of) in a mishmash of Help Scribble and PowerPoint presentations.
Is there an easy way (relatively;) to convert the HelpScribble files to RoboHelp?
Also, is there any thing (short of stripping out the text and inserting it topic by topic) that I can do with the PowerPoint stuff?
Thanks!

Hi there
Is HelpScribble able to create a .CHM file? If so, you could reverse engineer the CHM and make it a RoboHelp HTML project. My colleague Peter Grainge has some good information on his site about doing this.
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For the PowerPoint, you might consider opening in PowerPoint and saving as HTML. You could then import the HTML into the project.
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