Generate topics from a linked Word document failes

RH 9: Every time I try to generate topics from a linked Word document, RH failes and has to be shut. How do I solve this problem? or is this a bug in the application?

There is no Conversion Settings screen. Here are the steps I took:
1. Created a new RH9 project.
2. Right-clicked in the Project Manager and selected "Link | Word Document." (The message "scanning" appeared and then the MS Word document I selected appeared as an MSWord doc in the project folder.)
3. Once all editing was finalized, I right-clicked on the MSWord doc in the Project Manager and selected "Update."
There was no Conversion Settings screen. The MSWord doc now appeared as a single HTML topic in Project Manager.

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I have been observing this thread and wanted to just chip in to remove some misnomers,
1. If you create any hyperlink from any MS Word document (say Doc1) to another MS Word document (say Doc2) and you import the original document (Doc1) then it brings its reference (that is the word document Doc2) as baggage in the RoboHelp project and the hyperlink is not created to the html file generated for the word document Doc2 (linked or imported seprately).
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