Importing framemaker documents to RH7

I am trying to import Framemaker documents to RH7, but the
conversion options dialog box as mentioned in RH7 Help, doesn't
appear. Although the chapter gets imported but with its own
styles.

Robert,
In the FM Document Settings dialog (Rt-click your document in
the Project Manager and select Properties), go to the Style
Settings tab.
Under Style Conversion Settings, check "Convert AutoNumber to
HTML list". - That gives you your UL and LI tags.
If you've autonumbered things in FM that you do not want
numbered in RH, click the Select button in the same area. In the
dialog that comes up, you can check those styles for which you want
the numbers ignored. For example, numbered headings wouldn't be
appropriate if you're breaking them into separate topic.

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