Importing large amounts of baggage files?

I'm making generating a new roboproject from a Word document.
Only one of the problems I'm having is that the Word document
contains a lot of links to external files. These links still exist
in Robohelp, but they don't refer to right location anymore.
How do import all those external files fast and easy way
(instead of one by one) as baggage files in Robohelp?
Is there an other way to work with external files?

"fast and easy"? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
ha, ha, ha!
But seriously, folks...open the rhbag.apj file in Notepad,
see how the baggage file entries are formatted, and format each of
your new entries in the proper format in another file (you might
need a good Replace tool like FAR), and then add them to the
rhbag.apj file.
An alternate method might be to perform the new entry
formatting in Word,
but then filtering those results through Notepad first
, then copying the straight text into the rhbag.apj file.
Good luck,
Leon

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"fast and easy"? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
ha, ha, ha!
But seriously, folks...open the rhbag.apj file in Notepad,
see how the baggage file entries are formatted, and format each of
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rhbag.apj file.
An alternate method might be to perform the new entry
formatting in Word,
but then filtering those results through Notepad first
, then copying the straight text into the rhbag.apj file.
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"...and the user having to add them manually in rhbag.apj
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needed to do that.)
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file has an ID number, and sometimes a file ID acquires a "minus"
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unless you convert the database file to your current version of
Access. I've ignored this warning and successfully saved changes.
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Temporarily change the name of the original cpd file and
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