How to Fix Index Keyword[colon]Subkeyword in RH 7 HTML

Question

I have a longstanding RH X5 for Word help project that I have compiled as Win4 Help (*.HLP) countless times. The Index formats nicely with Keywords on the left margin and Subkeywords indented beneath their respective Keywords.
When I open a copy of this same project in RH 7 HTML (see post here), the Keywords in the Index format as expected, but the Subkeywords do not indent beneath their respective Keywords.  Instead, the Keyword plus a colon appears before each Subkeyword.
For example,
Reports
    Detail
    Summary
appears as
Reports
Reports:Detail
Reports:Summary
This use of colons and not indenting prior to Subkeywords persists in all my outputs from the newly-opened RH 7 HTML project.  This is not acceptable.
I hope that someone has the answer on how to either
open a RH X5 for Word project in RH 7 HTML, such that either the Index Keywords and Subkeywords behave properly and show up like the first example above.
OR
provide a workaround short of manually editing the HTML code, to supply the Index Keywords and Subkeywords as shown in the first example above.
Thank you,
Marjorie

Answer 1

Elisa,
I did file a bug report, referencing this forum post.  Here's hoping Adobe will fix this bug.
I did end up editing the *.HHK file using the following method:
1. Close RH7.
2. Open the existing *.HHK in Notepad.
3. Open Word.
4. Copy the contents from Notepad into Word.
5. Save the Word file.
6. Close Notepad without saving.
7. Create macros in Word that help edit the Subkeywords so they appear as unordered lists of "objects" nested right below the
list item "object" for the main keyword.
8. Use these macros to fix up the *.HHK file text.
9. Save in Word.
10. Open Notepad.
11. Copy all the *.HHK file text into Notepad.
12. Save the *.HHK in Notepad.  NOTE:  Save in a folder other than the RoboHelp project folder!
13. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the RoboHelp project folder.
14. Rename the existing *.HHK in Windows Explorer.  (I like to change the extension so RoboHelp won't recognize it as a *.HHK
file anymore.)
15. Copy the updated *.HHK into my project folder.
16. Open the RH7 project.
I did use the GUI Index pod to make a few changes, where I found any problems in the new Index.
So, I will keep my macros and they should help me if I ever need to do this again.
If anyone wants a copy of these macros, let me know and I will copy them here.  They work in Word 2003.
Marjorie