Missing topics in TOC and index

I am using Robohelp 6.
When using robohelp for Word with the primary output to html
help several topics do not show up in the TOC nor the index. They
appear correctly when I generate winhelp2000.
Is there some special setting I need to make? The other
topics seem to handled correctly and display correctly.
Thanks, Jim

Hi Jim
Your situation is reflective of the reason you may wish to
consider changing over to RoboHelp HTML for creating output that is
HTML based. As time goes on, more and more folks are shifting away
from that product in favor of RoboHelp HTML. As a result, we are
losing collective knowledge about how to coax it to work for the
HTML formats.
Cheers... Rick

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